This guy does things much like Montoya and he does use a pick:

Naseer Shamma: It Happened at al-Amiriyya
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Music starts at 5:20. Much of it is flamenco adapted to Arabic tradition, but Montoya would have problems doing the air-raid-siren/descending-bomb effects starting at 8:20.

I use picks like that. I have too many to lose, but often keep them threaded through the strings. I used to have a cat who liked stealing them. There is a distinctive BONG sound that is only produced by a Middle Eastern type pick being dragged out of the strings of an oud or cumbus by little kitty teeth. He would then run like hell with them and they'd show up under the furniture covered in tiny toothmarks months later.