Saadet Özen was born in Istanbul. After her graduation from the French high school Notre Dame de Sion, she received her BA at the Department of Archaeology and Art History, Istanbul University. Subsequently she worked as an editor at Can Yayınları (1997-2006). In 2011, she earned her MA at the University of Boğaziçi, Department of History with her study on the Manaki Brothers’ still and moving images during the Young Turk Revolution. Currently a PhD candidate at the same department, her main areas of research are the political use of visual material (photography, advertisement material, postcards etc.), the consumption and perception of industrial food in the late Ottoman era, and the history of tourism. She has published two books: Notre Dame de Sion, 150 Yılın Tanığı (Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat, 2006), and Çukulata, Çikolatanın Yerli Tarihi (Çukulata / A Turkish History of Chocolate, Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat, 2014). As translator, she translated several books from French, English, and Spanish into Turkish. She has participated in the production of several documentary films, as “Mustafa” (by Can Dündar, archival researcher, 2006), “Ankara” (2011), and “The Last Caliph” (2013, co-writer and co-director).