Isaac Donoso (Alcoy, 1979) is Full Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies. Doctor by the University of Alicante (2011) and the University of Valencia (2023). He has grades in Arabic and Islamic Studies (2001), Humanities (2003) Hispanic Philology (2003) and Musicology (2014), plus a Master of Arts in Islamic Studies by the University of the Philippines (2008). Donoso has published for the first time a critical edition of Noli me tangere (2011), the prose of Rizal (2012) and El Filibusterismo (2022) as well as the legendary novel Los pájaros de fuego by Jesús Balmori (2010), and the Boxer Codex (2016). He authored Islamic Far East: Ethnogenesis of Philippine Islam (University of the Philippines Press, 2013), and Bichara. Moro chanceries and Jawi legacy in the Philippines (Palgrave, 2023), seeking a new direction for Philippine Islamic Studies. He has worked together with Jeannifer Zabala promoting Catalan Studies in the Philippines, between others with the study Romanços Filipins del Regne de València (2008) and the translation into Filipino of the Valencian novel Tirante el Blanco (2010). He edited the seminal volumes More Hispanic than We Admit. Insights into Philippine Cultural History (2008), and Historia cultural de la lengua española en Filipinas: ayer y hoy (2012). Specialist in Islamic and Philippine Studies, he edits the journals Revista Filipina (the only Philippine publication fully in Spanish) and Revista Argelina (the only Spanish journal consecrated to Algeria). He was three years visiting faculty at the Philippine Normal University in Manila.