Younis Bahri

Younis Saleh Bahri al-Juburi was an Iraqi traveler, journalist, broadcaster, and writer. He was born in January 1904 in Mosul, and was nicknamed "the sailor" for having studied in a military school in Istanbul and graduated as a naval officer. In 1921, he continued his education in the Cavalry Military School in Munich, where he met Adolf Hitler. He has written many books, traveled to several countries, and he is said to have mastered over 17 languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Turkish. He has founded multiple radio stations, including the first Arab radio station in the European continent in 1939, Arab Radio of Berlin, which broadcast from Germany to the Arab world. His famous catchphrase was: "This is Berlin, the neighborhood of Arabs." On air, he would make speeches, where he would insult some kings and presidents. He has met some very famous people of his time, and was sentenced to death four times. His personality did, and still does, cause controversy around the nature of his work and his different professions. While he lived in India, he was a monk during the day and a dancer at a nightclub during the night, but still managed to find time to work as a reporter for an Indian newspaper. He was also a Mufti in Indonesia, an Editor in Chief for a newspaper in Java, an Imam in Paris, and gained the nickname "the Legend of the Earth".