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Pablo Martín Asuero (born San Sebastián, 1967) is a Spanish scholar from the Basque Country. He specialises in Middle Eastern history, and has directed the Cervantes Institute in Istanbul and Damascus.
Martín Asuero graduated from Sandia Preparatory High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico and studied Hispanic Philology at the University of Deusto (Spain). From 1991 to 1993 he learned Turkish at the University of Istanbul, having been awarded a scholarship from the Foreign Ministry of Spain. [1] He obtained his Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of the Basque Country (Spain) with a thesis Constantinopla 1783-1916. La imagen española de Estambul durante la cuestión de Oriente directed by Jon Juaristi.
A year after graduation, Martín Asuero began working for the Spanish General Consulate as a teacher of Spanish at the Istanbul Technical University, and later as maître de lange at the University of Picardie Jules Verne in Beauvais (France). In 2000 he was appointed as a teacher at the Instituto Cervantes in Beirut (Lebanon). Two years later he was appointed director of the Cervantes Institute in Istanbul until 2007, then at the Cervantes Institute in Damascus, [2] and from September 2012 until August 2017 he was again Director of the Cervantes Institute of Istanbul [1], then he went back to Lebanon until 2021 at the present is based in San Sebastián, Spain.
Martín Asuero has been editor of the proceedings of several conferences related to the Sephardim, the relations between Spain and the Ottoman Empire, and literature written by diplomats. He is an adviser for the Cuadernos del Bósforo for the Isis Press in Istanbul (Turkey). His works have been translated into English, French, Turkish, Arabic, Serbian and Catalan.
Pablo Martín Asuero is an honorary member of the Asociación Española de Orientalistas. He has been inducted into the Order of Civil Merit and the Order of Isabella the Catholic in Spain [3] and the Order of Merit given by the Chilean government.
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Pablo Martín Asuero (born San Sebastián, 1967) is a Spanish scholar from the Basque Country. He specialises in Middle Eastern history, and has directed the Cervantes Institute in Istanbul and Damascus.
Martín Asuero graduated from Sandia Preparatory High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico and studied Hispanic Philology at the University of Deusto (Spain). From 1991 to 1993 he learned Turkish at the University of Istanbul, having been awarded a scholarship from the Foreign Ministry of Spain. [1] He obtained his Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of the Basque Country (Spain) with a thesis Constantinopla 1783-1916. La imagen española de Estambul durante la cuestión de Oriente directed by Jon Juaristi.
A year after graduation, Martín Asuero began working for the Spanish General Consulate as a teacher of Spanish at the Istanbul Technical University, and later as maître de lange at the University of Picardie Jules Verne in Beauvais (France). In 2000 he was appointed as a teacher at the Instituto Cervantes in Beirut (Lebanon). Two years later he was appointed director of the Cervantes Institute in Istanbul until 2007, then at the Cervantes Institute in Damascus, [2] and from September 2012 until August 2017 he was again Director of the Cervantes Institute of Istanbul [1], then he went back to Lebanon until 2021 at the present is based in San Sebastián, Spain.
Martín Asuero has been editor of the proceedings of several conferences related to the Sephardim, the relations between Spain and the Ottoman Empire, and literature written by diplomats. He is an adviser for the Cuadernos del Bósforo for the Isis Press in Istanbul (Turkey). His works have been translated into English, French, Turkish, Arabic, Serbian and Catalan.
Pablo Martín Asuero is an honorary member of the Asociación Española de Orientalistas. He has been inducted into the Order of Civil Merit and the Order of Isabella the Catholic in Spain [3] and the Order of Merit given by the Chilean government.