Hussein Jelaad is a Jordanian writer born in 1970 and has published two books of poetry, Eternal Crucifixion of the Prominent (1999) and As Prophets Lose (2007).
He is currently a journalist at Aljazeera Network. He writes about political and cultural affairs.
He has contributed to Al-Arab Al-Yawm and Al-Ra’i Arabic Daily as well as working as a freelancer for An-Nahar, published in Lebanon.
Jelaad is the Jordanian Ambassador to the Movement poets of the world, a literary organization based in Chile, with a membership of thousands of world poets. He is also a member of the Administrative Body of the Jordanian Writers League (2004–2006).