Marc AYMES works at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (Centre d’études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques, CNRS / EHESS / Collège de France) [1] on the history of the Eastern Mediterranean world in the 18th-20th centuries. Provincialisation and falsification are the key themes. M.A. is editor of the European Journal of Turkish Studies [2], co-director of the journal Labyrinthe. Atelier interdisciplinaire (Paris, Éditions Hermann) [3], and a member of the editorial board of sans papier (a collection of electronic preprints in French and Francophone Studies, Cornell University). [1] http://cetobac.ehess.fr/document.php?id=229 (French) or http://cetobac.ehess.fr/document.php?id=534 (English) [2] http://ejts.revues.org [3] http://labyrinthe.revues.org [4] http://as.cornell.edu/departments/french-t/publications/index.html