Anna Younes

Emma Goldman

2025

Anna Younes (she/her) is an independent scholar focusing on settler colonial and colonial studies, Race Critical Theories, and psychoanalysis with a focus on Europe, the Dutch Caribbean and beyond. Her 2015 PhD tackled the manifold discourses around Antisemitism in Germany mainly and Europe writ large. Therein she coined the term “War on Antisemitism”, a counterinsurgency war in the footsteps of the War on Drugs and War on Terror in a post-WWII world order. She has curated Palestinian art and has extensively written about anti-Palestinian repression, anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim-racism in Germany and has a background in anti-racist activism in Berlin. In 2018, she received a teacher’s award nominated by her students at the Gender Studies Department (Humboldt University, Berlin) for her classes on psychoanalysis. Younes’ scholar-/activism has led to active repression against her person in Germany, along with great international solidarity as a response by scholars, activists, artists and many others. In her 20s, she published many journalistic pieces, worked in (TV and print) media and co-authored a documentary on war journalism (“Der Andere im Augenblick,” 2008). Later on, she worked as a lay judge at Berlin’s Juvenile Court and wrote an educational YouTube series on “Decolonizing the Development and Humanitarian Sector“. Younes defines her work through the (anthropological) concepts of “researching home” and “researching up to power”. Anna founded and organized the Colloquium of Color in Berlin for several years and is also engaged as a researcher and writer for the ELSC – Europe. Her work and campaigns can be found on academia.edu or on her personal website: https://annaestheryounes.net