Mohamad Ali El Husseini

Mohamad Ali El Husseini (born; 1 May 1974) is a Lebanese Shia Islamic researcher and lecturer who holds Saudi citizenship and is the current Secretary-General of the Arab Islamic Council in Lebanon. He has authored more than seventy books and is distinguished by his unifying intellectual and political positions calling for unity between Sunnis and Shiites. Among his publications are: Towards a Moderate Islam and The Danger of Sectarian Conflicts and Ways to Confront Them. He was a supporter of Hezbollah in its early days, but later became hostile to the party, adopting the Israeli point of view, and being accused several times of collaborating with Israel.