Maria N.

Todorova (born 1949, Sofia) is a Bulgarian historian and philosopher who is best known
for her influential book, Imagining the Balkans, in which she applies Edward Said's notion of
"Orientalism" to the Balkans. She is the daughter of historian and politician Nikolai Todorov,[1] who
was Speaker of the National Assembly of Bulgaria, and acting President of Bulgaria in 1990.