Younis Saleh Bahri al-Juburi (c. 1903 – 30 May 1979; Arabic: يونس بحري) was an Iraqi traveler, journalist, broadcaster, and writer.

He was born in 1903 or January 1904 in Mosul, Iraq, and was nicknamed "the sailor" for having graduated as a naval officer from a military school in Istanbul.

He is known for writing many books, and has traveled to several countries, and is said to have mastered over 17 languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Turkish.

He was also a Mufti in Indonesia, an editor-in-chief for a newspaper in Java, an Imam in Paris, and an advisor to king Idris of Libya, and was therefore known as "the Legend of the Earth".

His father, Saleh Agha Al-Juburi, was an officer in the Ottoman army, and worked within a unit in charge of delivering mail between Istanbul and Mosul.

Bahri attended schools in Mosul, and in 1921, he joined a teaching academy in Baghdad, but he was expelled after three months, so he took a clerk position in the Ministry of Finance, which he left in 1923.

He went from Great Britain to Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Germany, then reached Egypt where he formed strong bonds with authors and intellectuals, and wrote in newspapers.

48 days later, he reached the Atlas mountains, and found himself in Morocco, so he visited the cities of Fes, Meknes, Marakech, Rabat and Tanja.

Younis published another magazine "Al-Haq Wal Salam", got married in Indonesia and settled there for a short while before leaving again.

Between 1935 and 1939, Bahri did not travel outside of Iraq much except for his visit to the 'Asir' Region in southern Saudi Arabia, and his attendance of a conference in Tunisia in 1937.

The reason for his arrest was attributed to the article published in his newspaper, reporting that there was hidden English influence behind the accident to get rid of the king, who was calling for the elimination of colonialism.

Prior to the Second World War, he traveled to Berlin and met with the Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and Dr. Alfred Rosenberg.

Bahri reported on the Nazi Party's view, and did some anchor work that read comments and analyzed them on the Berlin Arab Radio Station (إذاعة برلين العربية) on the Kaiserdamm in Charlottenburg, with the Moroccan scholar Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali and the rebel Fawzi al-Qutb.

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 elites, including the leader Adolf Hitler and the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini.

He had special bonds with Amin Al Husseini, Palestine's Mufti, and the Iraqi minister Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, who were allies of the Germans against the British.

He then published a book about the revolution under the name "Agarid Rabih", and was called after by the president Abdul Salam Arif to be honored.

I read: 'Dear Military Leader, in the name of the national resistance, I oppose the release of my father Yunis the Sailor.

He first married Madiha from Mosul, from whom he had 2 sons, Louai and Saadi, and one daughter, Mona, psychologist in the University of Baghdad.

In 1929, he met Julie van der Veen, a Dutch painter, in a casino in the French city of Nice.

He left to continue his travels, keeping in touch with Julie for more than 10 years through love letters written in German.

[4] He spent the end of his life in Baghdad, where he died in 1979, at the age of 76 in the home of his relative and colleague Nizar Mohammed Zaki (director of the office of the News Agency in Beirut).

The French Press Agency and Reuters reported the news of his death, published by the Lebanese daily An-Nahar on its front page.