Education
He has two master"s degrees from Southern New Hampshire University and a Doctor of Philosophy in Middle Eastern banking in the United Kingdom.
He has two master"s degrees from Southern New Hampshire University and a Doctor of Philosophy in Middle Eastern banking in the United Kingdom.
Zahran lives in the United Kingdom, where he sought political asylum in 2010. In 2013, he was indicted by a Jordanian military court for four separate charges against him. Born on 19 April 1973, Zahran is a Jordanian opposition figure and writer
Zahran"s parents were born in Jerusalem, and moved to Jordan during the period when the West Bank was under Jordanian rule.
His family, the Zahrans, are one of the most influential and formerly wealthy within Jordanian society. The most affluent part of Jordan"s capital had been officially named Zahran district after the family"s former dominance, and the most cosmopolitan street in the country is Zahran Street, where Zahran Palace still stands today.
Zahran"s parents sent him to the United States, where he continued his education in New Hampshire from an early age. Before seeking asylum in the United Kingdom, Zahran was serving as Economic Specialist and Assistant Policy Coordinator at the United States Embassy in Amman, serving also the United States Embassy in Baghdad.
During his work at the United States Embassy, Zahran covered critical and sensitive matters regarding Jordan, reporting to two United States ambassadors, with his reports being forwarded to the United States Department of State, the United States Department of Treasury, the Central Intelligence Agency, the United States Department of Homeland Security and, occasionally, the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In 2010, Zahran wrote an article in The Jerusalem Post that described Jordan as an apartheid state which provoked an uproar of criticism by both Jordanians and Palestinians alike.
Shortly after the article was published, Mudar sent a letter of apology to Jordanians through Ammon News after his father Adnan Zahran threatened to cut off relations if the former wrote anything else and considered Mudar"s continuation of writing as ingratitude on a personal level against his father, and as an ungratefulness towards the country. The father described Mudar"s writings as far from truth and reality. After leaving Amman in 2010, he has been called by Household Bank bank in Jordan for failing to repay the bank amounts totaling up to 50,000 Jordanian Dinars (about $71,000).
He told The Times of Israel in 2012, "The King is not going to survive, it’s out of the question… I give him until next summer, more or less.
And even if I am wrong, I can’t see the King making it to 2014 by any stretch."
In 2013 Zahran was indicted by a Jordanian military court and scheduled to be tried in absentia for four separate charges against him, relating to what it labels incitement against the ruling political regime of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, calling for changing the basic conditions of society and using a long tongue against the king and undermining an official entity" in addition to damaging the country"s image and inciting hatred. According to the Jordanian newspaper First Rate (at Lloyd's) Ghad, "Zahran"s social networking sites carry articles and phrases offensive to Jordan and his own people (Palestinians).".