Isabel Cabrera Saúco
She holds a degree in Concert Flute and a university degree in History and Music Sciences from the University of La Rioja. She works as a professor of Music History in the Music and Performing Arts faculty of the Regional Government of Andalusia. She also works at the Ángel Barrios Professional Conservatory of Music in the city of Granada. She has been invited by the Teacher Training Centers of Algeciras-La Línea (Cádiz) and Motril (Granada) to give a course on Key Skills and Project-Based Learning in Music Education. She belongs to a commission on Music and women: gender studies run by the Spanish Society of Musicology. Recently, she has been working to highlight the figure of María Lejárraga, along with her ties to Manuel de Falla and other performers, thus participating in the cultural events put on by the company Granada Singular. She currently specializes in playing medieval musical instruments (Arabic oud, recorders, psaltery, hurdy-gurdy and cittern), performing with different groups such as Xauen Lírica, Al cor Gentil and La nuba Gharnatí.

Manuela Cortés
An Arabist, researcher, teacher and cultural manager, she holds a PhD in Semitic Philology: Arabic and Islam, from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (1996). A full member of the Academy of Andalusian History (Seville, 2017), she has taught at the Universities of Cairo (1995-1998), at the Cervantes Institutes in Baghdad and Cairo (1987; 1996-2000) and at the University of Granada (2005-2022). Her lines of research include Arabic and Al-Andalus music and literature: Arabic documentary sources; Arabic and Andalusian theorists; Music and interdisciplinarity; Sufism; Gender issues; Iconographic art and Archeo-musicology. She has authored various scientific works, including Artistic Activities of Andalusian and Moorish Women. Singing, Instrumentation and Dance (2022); as well as works of poetry, novels, travel literature, translations and studies of contemporary Arabic poetry. She has published more than a hundred scientific articles and participated in congresses and conferences, as well as contributing to media outlets in Spain and countries in the Middle East and the Maghreb. A contributor to recording projects, magazines and foundations, she has also been a cultural manager, organizer of exhibitions, conferences, seminars and workshops on literature, music and the cultural relations between Spain and Arab countries.

Amin Chaachoo (Tetouan, Morocco) is a musician and musicologist specializing in Modal Music. He was chosen by the Board of Directors of the CIHAR Spanish-Arab Intercultural Circle in Madrid to receive the CIHAR Gold Medal in 2019. He founded the al-Haiek Association for Research into Al-Andalus Musical Heritage. He founded the Tetouan-Asmir Music Club, which specializes in the teaching and dissemination of Al-Andalus music, and the Founoun Music Conservatory, where he taught Andalusi music for many years. He created the Tetouan-Asmir Center for Musicology Research and the Preservation of Musical Heritage, a center devoted to promoting musicology and musicological education. He also founded the first Andalusi music orchestra made up of Spanish musicians in Malaga: the Andalusi Orchestra of Malaga.
His musicology research covers the fields of history, aesthetics, music theory, literature, music philosophy and music computing

Reynaldo Fernández Manzano
With a PhD and a university degree in Medieval History from the University of Granada, as well as studies in Arabic, he studied music at the Royal Conservatory of Granada and furthered his education in Paris. A specialist in the music of Al-Andalus and the Moriscos, he has supervised several doctoral theses and curated exhibitions, and is the author of numerous books and articles appearing in scientific journals. He has been the Director General of the Alhambra and Generalife Board of Trustees, director since its creation of the Andalusian Music Documentation Center and the Spanish Music Festival of Cádiz, President of the Spanish Association of Music Documentation, Vice-President of the Center for Byzantine, Post-Byzantine, Neo-Greek and Cypriot Studies, Secretary of the Barenboim-Said Foundation, Vice-President of the Rodríguez Acosta Foundation, Vice-President of the Picasso Museum in Malaga, Director General of Heritage Institutions with the Department of Culture of the Autonomous Regional Government of Andalusia, a professor at the International University of Andalusia and the Doctorate Program in Art and Humanities at the University of Granada. He has given lectures at several universities (the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, the Universities of Rome, Paris, Lisbon, New York, Beirut, Asilah, Tetouan, Tlemcen) and has been awarded various prizes,etc.

Maribel Fierro
A researching professor at the Institute of Mediterranean Languages and Cultures (CCHS-CSIC). She works on the political, social and intellectual history of pre-modern Islamic societies, especially in the Islamic West (North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula). She has authored works which include the following: Abdarramán III y el califato omeya de Córdoba (Abderrahman II and the Umayyad Caliphate in Cordoba, Nerea, 2011). She is the editor of the popular science magazine Al-Ándalus y la Historia (Al-Andalus and History). Further information on the professor by clicking on this link.

Manuela Marín
She was a researching professor at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) until her retirement. She has worked on the history of Al-Andalus, particularly its social and cultural aspects, with a focus on the history of women. She has authored many articles in domestic and foreign journals, as well as monographs on these and other research topics.

Eduardo Paniagua
An architect and specialist in medieval Spanish music. At the age of 16, he recorded his first four albums. A founding member of the groups Atrium Musicae, Cálamus and Hoquetus, he specializes in Moorish-Arab music from Al-Andalus. In 1994, he created the groups Música Antigua and Ibn Bàya, for musical work on the Canticles of King Alfonso X and Andalusi music, respectively. At the same time, he founded and runs the record label PNEUMA. For his work and for the dissemination of this unpublished music, he is receiving excellent reviews and international awards.

María Jesús Viguera
With a PhD in Arabic Philology (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1973, Special Degree Award). Doctorate Honoris Causa (University of Granada, 2018). Professor at the following universities: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, the University of Zaragoza, and the Universidad Complutense, where she was a full professor (as of 1983), then professor emeritus (2015-18), and now honorary professor in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, which she directed for twelve years. Member of Spain’s Royal Academy of History and four other academies, including Cordoba’s. She has authored some 400 publications, as well as co-authoring and coordinating four volumes (eleventh-fourteenth centuries) of Menéndez Pidal’s History of Spain. RAH admittance speech: The Arab Manuscripts in Spain: their history and History in general (Madrid, 2016); in the RAEX: Andalusi Episodes in Extremadura (Trujillo, 2017).