Eid Dahiyat (Arabic: عيد الدحيات) (born 1945) is a Jordanian politician, critic and academic.

Dahiyat was born in Shoubak, Ma'an Governorate, in 1945 where he first received his elementary education.^{[citation needed]} This was followed with a secondary education in the Ma'an Secondary School.^{[citation needed]} Dahiyat then attended the University of Jordan, where he earned a BA in English literature, graduating in the class of 1967.^{[citation needed]}

Dahiyat worked as a teaching assistant in the Department of English Literature at the University of Jordan from 1968 to 1970.^{[citation needed]}

This was followed by a Fulbright scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earning his MA and PhD by 1973.^[1]

Dahiyat served in numerous academic positions in Jordan. He taught as a professor at the University of Jordan's English department, before being promoted to dean and later to vice president of the University of Jordan's academic affairs.^{[citation needed]} This was followed by the positions of founding president of Al-Ahliyya Amman University and an eight-year role as the president of Mutah University from 1997 to 2005.^{[citation needed]} Dahiyat also served as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Amman Arab University, Applied Science Private University and Mutah University.^{[citation needed]}

Dahiyat is an Arabic academic in the field of Renaissance Literature and has written papers on the topic published in American and British Research journals, and is the author of 4 books in both Arabic and English.^{[citation needed]}

Dahiyat is also a member of Jordanian and Arabic literary circles and associations, and is the recipient of Jordanian literary awards.^[1]

Eid Dahiyat was appointed Jordan's Minister of Youth in Prime Minister Zaid al-Rifai's Cabinet in 1986, and Jordan's Minister of Education in Prime Minister Taher al-Masri's Cabinet in 1991.^{[citation needed]}

More recently, he was appointed as minister of Education in Prime Minister Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh's Cabinet formed in 2011.^{[citation needed]}

He served as the deputy prime minister.^[1]

Education first order, Jordan 1993.^{[citation needed]}

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