Tarek Younis

Tarek Younis

Younis

Dr Tarek Younis is the Racial Justice Researcher at Healing Justice London and Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Middlesex University. He researches and writes on Islamophobia, racism in mental health and the politics of psychology. He teaches on the impact of culture, religion, globalisation, and security policies on mental health. As a registered clinical psychologist, he primarily attends to experiences of racism, Islamophobia, and state violence through the Coming Home project. His book is called The Muslim, State and Mind: Psychology in Times of Islamophobia. He recently published a report entitled The Violence of Liberal Racism: What Palestine Reveals About British Mental Health Care.

The Filton 24 hunger strikers exposed the limits of liberal therapeutic culture that tries to heal without confronting oppression, writes Tarek Younis.

10 February, 2026