Panagiotis Poulos is an ethnomusicologist, Assistant Professor at the Department of Music Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His research centres on the musical traditions of the Near and Middle East with particular focus on Ottoman and Turkish urban musics and soundscapes. He is co-editor of Ottoman Intimacies, Balkan Musical Realities and author of Music in the Islamic World: Sources, Perspectives, Practices. His current research project is entitled Intercommunal musical geographies of late Ottoman Istanbul, funded by the Hellenic Foundation of Research and Innovation.