He is the communications director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a D.C.-based nonprofit group that promotes progressive experts as alternative sources for mainstream media reporters.
[1] Husseini is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned a double bachelor's degree in applied mathematics and logic and computation.
In 2011, the executive director of the National Press Club suspended Husseini for asking questions of the Saudi ambassador to the US, Turki Al-Faisal, which were considered "loaded statements".
Husseini asked Prince al-Faisal, the former head of Saudi intelligence, In 2018, he was removed from the 2018 Russia–United States summit press conference, prior to Trump and Putin's arrival in the room, when he held a sign saying "Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty" which the Russian authorities called a "malicious item".
[7] Husseini said he had hoped to ask Trump a question regarding the first legally binding international agreement to prohibit nuclear weapons, with the goal of their total elimination.
[13] Writing in Salon in 2020, Husseini suggested that the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan was possibly a result of a biowarfare laboratory discovering the virus in the wild, and studying it in a lab from which it escaped.