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Faisal Abdel Qader Al-Husseini (; 17 July 1940 – 31 May 2001) was a Palestinians politician.
In 1979, Al-Husseini founded and became chairman of the Arab Studies Society. He was also a member of the National Guidance Committee.
Israel, from 1982 to 1987, repeatedly placed him under house and city arrest. He was imprisoned several times from April 1987 to January 1989, but remained active in the First Intifada.
In 1982, he became a member of the Supreme Muslim Council in Jerusalem. Subsequently, he served as a Palestinian spokesperson, head of the Jerusalem National Council/Palestine, an advisor the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid Middle East Peace Conference and subsequent talks, head of the Fatah faction in the West Bank, and Palestinian Authority Minister without Portfolio.
His last post was Palestinian Authority Minister for Jerusalem Affairs for which he was based in East Jerusalem. He died while he was trying to mend relations between the government and the PLO, which were broken at the time of the 1991 Gulf War.
Al-Husseini was considered a pragmatist by journalists. He taught himself to speak Hebrew language and regularly appeared in radio and television shows in Israel to explain the Palestinians' point of view.
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