Fadi Elhusseini

He earned a bachelor's degree in economics and political science from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science - Cairo University. In 2000, he received a master's degree with honors from the University of Salento (formerly called: Università degli Studi di Lecce) in Italy. In October 2012, he began his Ph.D. studies at the University of Sunderland, the UK. His thesis deals with the role of Turkey in the Arab world in the aftermath of the so-called Arab Spring.

He began his diplomatic career working at the Palestinian Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation in 1998. He also taught economic development at Al-Azhar University in Gaza, and worked as a columnist for The Upcoming, a London-based news agency. He was the Executive Director of the Palestinian Council on Foreign Relations (chaired by Ziad Abu Amr). He worked as a political and media advisor for the Embassy of Palestine in Turkey,Egypt, and Canada. In 2013, he began working as an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute for Middle Eastern Studies, Canada, and soon he became board member of the same institute. Currently, he is heading the Palestinian embassy in Hungary.

Fadi Faisal Elhusseini (Arabic: فادي الحسيني) is a Palestinian-Canadian diplomat and writer, who is born in 1975. His research focuses on Turkey, the Palestinian cause, the Middle East and the Arab Spring.

Fadi Faisal Hamdi Abdulrahman Ahmed Mohiuddin Elhusseini was born on 21 October 1975 in Gaza. His father, Faisal Elhusseini, is one of the most prominent lawyers in Palestine, who had been arrested twice by Israeli authorities. And his grandfather, Hamdi Elhusseini, is one of the most famous Palestinian intellectuals.