I identify Professor Montávez as a reference in Spanish Arabism who turned the traditional focus of Arab studies in Spain from the Middle Ages, many of them looking for the Christian traces of Al-Andalus, to the contemporary period.
I didn't want to pull out the notes from my degree that are sleeping somewhere in the lumber room or from Saint Google, but to write a few words from my memory or impressions somewhere stuck, words that I would probably never have dared to say to him in person, there wasn't enough trust and I didn't follow him around the university or in specialised forums.
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It is a mid-distance homage, because from this moment on I designate myself as the spokesperson for so many students and graduates who end up working professionally in something other than what they studied the world is full of geographers, historians, biologists, graduates in the subject and then their professional careers lead them to other tasks, in my case to journalism and communication. This February 14, 2023, Pedro Martínez Montávez has changed dimension, from the earthly to an unknown one, and my head and my key ask me to write a column in his honour, which is a tribute to the Arabist who taught me and directed the Department of Arab and Islamic Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid in the eighties, probably also a tribute to my youth as a student of Arabic Philology, just as Joan Baptista Humet wrote a song about his adolescence.
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