Dr Aida Essaid is the Director of the Information and Research Center at the King Hussein Foundation in Amman, Jordan. Aida was previously the Senior Coordinator of the West Asia - North Africa Forum, and a Researcher at the Center for Strategic Studies at the University of Jordan. As a doctoral student at the University of Exeter, Aida was a teaching assistant and research assistant at the Department of Politics, where she focussed on the Arab -Israeli conflict. Her current research focuses on development and marginalized people in Jordan and the region.