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His family relocated to the UK when his father was named to the Indian High Commission, but the appointment ended soon thereafter, following the partition of India in August Habibullah's mother chose to remain in Britain with her children; she later became a broadcaster with the BBC's Eastern Service. He went to Cambridge, graduating in with a degree in English literature.

While there, Habibullah directed a number of plays, working with the likes of Derek Jacobi. Hussein briefly tried his hand at acting but, after appearing in an episode of Corrigan Blake , he soon concluded that he needed to alter his career plans. Hussein was instead accepted into the BBC's directors' training course, leading to his first professional work on the soap opera Compact.

He also directed episodes of programmes such as Suspense and Moonstrike before being assigned to the first-ever Doctor Who serial, , BC. He helped guide the development of the fledgling series, including the assembly of the regular cast. Hussein returned to Doctor Who a few months later to direct Marco Polo. At one point, it was hoped that Hussein would direct half the serials for Doctor Who 's debut season.

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At one point, it was hoped that Hussein would direct half the serials for Doctor Who 's debut season, but he instead sought work on plays, such as a celebrated version of A Passage To India. As such, he was rather dismayed when Lambert successfully argued for him to be assigned to the soap opera The Newcomers , her first project after leaving Doctor Who.

This was, however, a rare bleak moment in Hussein's friendship with Lambert. But his focus remained on television, especially feature-length teleplays, and he was prolific on both sides of the Atlantic. Happy At Last. His miniseries Intimate Contact was one of the first dramas to confront the AIDS epidemic, and it was secretly a very personal project for Hussein, whose partner Ian had died of the disease.

In , Hussein was invited to direct the Doctor Who twentieth-anniversary story The Five Doctors , but he was forced to decline due to other commitments.