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