Bio Blanche el Gammal is a researcher, and she holds a PhD (2016) with a thesis entitled: « L’Orient-Express, configurations littéraires d’un mythe européen » (The Orient Express, a European Literary Myth), directed by Professor Guy Ducrey (University of Strasbourg) and Professor Paul Aron (University of Bruxelles). She is currently teaching Literature in Nanterre University, near Paris. In 2014, she was one of the scientific advisors in the exhibition « Il était une fois l’Orient Express » (Once Upon a Time There was the Orient Express) at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. The Orients of the Orient Express The Orient Express, the most famous train in the world,…