Background
His father, an agriculture engineer, was active in the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria.
His father, an agriculture engineer, was active in the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria.
The family first sought asylum in Sweden which due to the Dublin Regulation planned to return them to Greece where they first had arrived. The family then fled to Norway where they were granted the right to stay in 2001 and settled in Jessheim. In September 2014, Labour Party Youth Organisation (Norwegian)"s electoral committee nominated him to become the new leader of Labour Party Youth Organisation (Norwegian) after Eskil Pedersen.
The nomination led to harassing comments based on Hussaini"s ethnic background on various internet sites and a person who suggested the electoral committee should be executed was reported to the police.
On 19 October, Hussaini was unanimously elected new leader at the league"s congress in Oslo. He has named environment and economic equality as two prime political issues.
He studies innovation and technology at the University of Oslo.
Hussaini became a member of Labour Party Youth Organisation (Norwegian) in 2006 and later became leader of the Akershus chapter. He also became a member of the In the 2011 local elections, he was elected to the Ullensaker municipality council and Akershus county council for the Labour party.