Hannu Juusola In Finland, research on the Middle East goes back to the establishment of the chair of Linguarum orientalium at the Academia Aboensis (Turku) in 1640. In general, the Finnish research tradition has followed the German tradition in emphasizing philological research and focus on the study of ancient and classical periods. In line with Edward Said’s description of the German tradition (Said 1978: 19), Finnish Orient has also been very scholarly (see Juusola 2013). The transition from the Orientalist research tradition to the modern Middle East studies (area studies) has been slow by regional (i.e., Nordic) standards. Probably due to the conservatism of the Finnish research tradition, relative lack of historical colonial ambitions, and the late arrival of significant number of Arab or Muslim populations to Finland, the so-called Oritalism debate largely bypassed the Finnish academic community in the period when such debates were commonplace in many other countries. As I and others have described elsewhere (Juusola 2013; Isotalo 2009), Finnish Orientalism, nevertheless, attests to common characteristics of the European Orientalist discourse, such as essentialism and romantism. The latest phase of Orientalism, since the beginning of the 21st Century, has so far attracted little academic interest. The aim of this article is to analyze the recent trends in the development of Orientalist tradition in Finland. In particular, the purpose is to describe and consider neo-Orientalist tendencies in the Finnish scholarly and public discourses. The paper demonstrates, how neo-Orientalist characteristics easily cross geographical and cultural borders and appear in the contexts, such as Finland, where Orientalist stereotypes only have had a limited relevance.