Career
Graduating in science from Cairo University in 1957, he was imprisoned again from 1959 to 1964. On release from jail Hussein became a journalist, joining the newspaper Akhbar First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Yom. Forced into an administrative job for his opposition to President El-Sadat in 1973, he embarked upon a period of scholarly research which resulted in three books: The Egyptian Economy, Towards a New Arab Thought (1981), and Normalisation (1984).
He edited the party newspaper, First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Shaab from 1985 to 1993, allowing the leaders of the banned Muslim Brotherhood to write for lieutenant
On 24 December 1994, Hussein was arrested in Cairo on his return from a trip to France, and held in solitary confinement in Tora Prison. One week after his arrest, a reason was provided: al Jama"a al-Islamiya leaflets with his handwriting on had apparently been found under his plane seat.
After continuing protest at his imprisonment, he was released on 18 January 1995.