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is an Egyptian academic, translator and social activist. He is a lecturer of Egyptian and European modern history at Helwan University, Egypt. He has studied history at Ain Shams University, and graduated with an MA thesis on Sayyid Qutb and his Influence on Political Thought in Egypt in 1993. He received his PhD with a dissertation on Ideological Developments in Egypt 1954–1967 from Helwan University. His published books (all in Arabic) include Sayyid Qutb and Islamic Fundamentalism (1995), The Question of Identity: Identity and the Authority of the Intellectual in the Postmodern Era (1999), The Sacred March: the June 1967 Demonstrations and the Formation of the Cult of Nasser (2005). Another book, based on his dissertation is forthcoming with the title No Man’s Regime: The Ideological Re-Formation of Egypt under the 1952 Coup. Younis has translated a number of academic books from English into Arabic, like Khaled Fahmy’s All the Pasha’s Men and Medicine and Law, Roel Meijer’s The Quest for Modernity: Secular, Liberal and Left-Wing Political Thought in Egypt or Zachary Lockman’s Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism. Younis is a frequent contributor to public debates on modern intellectual history, philosophy and political issues. His articles have been published by various Newspapers and Journals such as akhbar al-adab, sutur, al-masry al-yawm, ad-dimuqratiyya, al-hayat, or al-kitaba al-ukhra. Younis is the co-editor of Al-bosla, an independent journal of the democratic left in Egypt.