Delaissant deliberement les approches strictement categorielles du phenomene de l'orientalisme, le present volume s'attache a croiser les regards sur l'Orient depuis divers points de l'espace europeen, incluant d'une part le monde anglophone, d'autre part l'Europe centrale et orientale. Aux cotes d'historiens, geographes, linguistes, traducteurs, specialistes de l'histoire de l'art et de la museologie, on decouvre certaines des etapes majeures de la constitution d'un savoir sur l'Orient. The editors of this volume have chosen a wide, multidisciplinary approach to the question of Orientalism, so as to confront the visions of the Orient from various European countries, including the English speaking world, but also Central and Eastern Europe. Articles by specialist historians, geographers, linguists, translators, and professionals of art history and museology retrace some of the major steps in the construction of a global knowledge of the Orient.