Aayaan Jafferi is the UK Correspondent for the Student World Press and a Politics and International Relations student at Durham University in the UK. His interests include Middle Eastern interstate relations and regional security, as well as the relationship between British foreign policy and domestic politics. He has contributed news articles and political analysis to national and international student-run newspapers and organisations. He sees SWP as a unique opportunity to highlight the wider significance of news stories and explore how their implications extend beyond the immediate headlines.