Younis Bahri
Younis Saleh Bahri al-Jubouri (c. 1903 – 1979; Arabic: يونس بحري) was an Iraqi journalist, broadcaster, and writer. He wrote many books. He traveled to numerous countries and for this reason was called the Iraqi traveler in his time. He is said to have mastered over 17 languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Turkish.
Bahri was born around 1903 in Mosul. His first marriage was with a woman named Madiha in Mosul. Yunus Bahri is said to have married more than 100 women[1]. However, much about the life of Bahri is uncertain because many myths exist about him.
In 1929 he met Julie van der Veen, a Dutch female painter, in a casino in the French city of Nice. He wanted to marry her, but she did not want to travel much and wanted to settle. Then he left and traveled and met Julie again in 1939. He had an affair with her for more than ten years, exchanging love letters in English until they later married in Berlin at the end of 1939.[2]This marriage ended after less than four months and Julie returned to The Netherlands.
He had more than one hundred children, and this was mentioned to one of his companions in the Council attended by King Faisal I when he congratulated him with the birth of his sixtieth son[3]. The number of marriages has exceeded everyone's, and asked one of the journalists and Younus Bahri at the end of his life: How did you marry so many women, you are a Muslim, and Islam does not allow more than four wives? He said: "I divorced my wives after every marriage for a month, a year or more...".[4] [[File:مؤتمر الثقافة الإسلامية 1949.jpg|thumb|Younis Bahri, a participant in the Islamic Culture Conference in 1949, whose sessions were held at the Lycée Carnot (Lycée pilote Bourguiba) in Tunis Radio Qasr al-Zuhur and the killing of King Ghazi
In 1933 he returned to Iraq and issued a newspaper called (Al-Aqab Newspaper), and in that period he worked as a broadcaster on Radio Qasr al-Zuhoor, which was founded by King Ghazi and is an Arabic radio, and he was the first to introduce King Ghazi from Radio Qasr al-Zuhur , and his voice was that expresses opinions and ideas King Ghazi , and between 1935 and 1939 Younis Bahri did not go out much outside Iraq except for his visit to the Asir region in southern Saudi Arabia and his going to a conference in Tunisia in 1937, as well as his participation in the name of Iraq in a swimming race, and it is funny that he participated in the race without training so the result was his victory in the center The first and winning the gold medal, and Professor Qasim Al-Khattat says that Y. Wens Bahri entered Al-Sahafa Square in Iraq when he issued the Al-Aqab newspaper, and in April 1939, the day the King Ghazi’s car collided with the electricity pole and led to his death, the Al-Aqab newspaper was published and its first page was blacked out, and its title is in bold at the top of the page : (The death of King Ghazi). The published article caused noisy demonstrations throughout Iraq, and as a result of these demonstrations, the demonstrators attacked the British consulate in Mosul, and when the British consul Monk Mason came out, he was killed by a number of the attackers. When the police officers went to Yunus Bahri to arrest him and bring him to trial, he had arrived in Berlin with a Lufthansa plane carrying a passport issued to him by the German embassy in Baghdad , as the German consul in Baghdad helped him escape to Germany .
The reason for his arrest is attributed to the authorities because he indicated in the article published in the newspaper Al-Aqab that there are hidden English fingers behind the incident to get rid of the young national king who was calling for the elimination of colonialism, and it was King Ghazi who founded a radio in the Royal Palace of Flowers calling for Unity and anti-English, and Younes Bahri was the first broadcaster on this radio Berlin Arab Radio
During the Second World War, he traveled to Berlin and met with the Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels and Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, the Nazi Party's view, and there is an anchor work that reads comments and analyzes on the Berlin Arab Radio Station , with the updated Moroccan writer Taqi al-Din al-Hilali , and the fighter Fawzi al-Qutb , and he starts his speeches with a sentence (Arab District), and what was broadcast on the radio in 1956 in Beirut was printed in a book called (Hana Berlin )here berlin, in several parts. During his work on the radio, he was promoting Nazi propaganda and hostile rhetoric to Britain and its allies. He became one of the people close to the German leadership, attending official ceremonies in the Nazi German military uniform, wearing the swastika on his forearm, which allowed him to meet many of the Nazi symbols, including the leader Adolf Hitler and the Italian fascist leader Mussolini .
In order to attract Arab listeners to the Berlin Radio Station , Younes Bahri asked Goebbels to agree to broadcast verses from the Qur’an at the beginning of the radio broadcast, and Goebbels hesitated but conveyed the proposal to Hitler , who agreed to it after Yunus explained to him that broadcasting the verses of the Qur’an at the opening would attract the attention of Arab listeners to Berlin Radio, and he left listening to the British Radio (BBC), which was not broadcasting the Quran , so Radio Berlin gained the attention of the Muslim audience and became a favorite among the Arabs, and after a while Britain sensed this, so Radio BBC started broadcasting verses from the Holy Qur’an also, says Yunus Bahri In his notes on this radio: (Until not yet D, that phrase did not seem strange to the ears, as it remained in the minds and memories of the Arabs, despite the collapse of the Third Reich and the defeat of Germany, the Arab neighborhood was the voice of Younis Bahri, through the Arab radio station that he founded in Berlin , and which he says: here is Berlin Hay Al-Arab a greeting for arabs, with this resounding phrase, I opened Arabic Radio from the German Radio Station in Berlin, at seven o'clock in the evening on April 7, 1939, which is three days after I left Baghdad , and the Arab Radio that I supervised alone and took over the radio on my own )
During that period, he worked as an imam and preacher in a number of mosques of European countries, and Professor Samir Abdullah Al-Sayegh commenting on Younis Bahri’s work on German radio says: “We know that he worked on Berlin Radio and came out of it by a decision from Haj Amin Al-Husseini after he was the main factor in its success and acquired On the ears of the Arab listeners everywhere, Al-Husseini decided to take it out because he did not adhere to the texts of the statements and comments that were prepared by the Arab office in Jerusalem , as he was agitated and added harsh, unwritten phrases in the text, and was related to the guardian Abd Allah, most of his insults, as well as Nuri Al-Saeed and King Abdullah In Jordan
Death
At the end of his life he stayed in Baghdad and died in 1979 at the home of his relative and colleague Nizar Mohammed Zaki (director of the office of the News Agency in Beirut). He was buried by the municipality in al-Ghazali cemetery. The French Press Agency and Reuters reported the news of his death, published by the Lebanese daily An-Nahar on its front page.
External links
References
- ^ http://younis-bahri.net/
- ^ "Category: يونس بحري". بيت الموصل bayt al mosul.
- ^ http://younis-bahri.net/
- ^ "يونس بحري الجبوري عراقي سافر خلف طموحه إلى العالم البعيد".
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