María del Mar Gijón Mendigutía (Madrid, 1988) is a Spanish Arabist philologist, human rights activist and writer.

[3] She studied a licenciate degree in Arabic philology in the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM).

Later she obtained a doctorate in Arab and Islamic Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid in 2016.

In 2018 she was a speaker at the International Congress on Human Rights, with the conference "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and United Nations Resolution 194 (III) of 1948: Links, evolution and perspectives", on the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and the Palestinian issue.

[16] Gijón received the ICHR Award for the Best Conference on human rights.