Mudar Badran

Mudar Seyyid Muhammad Badran (Arabic: مضر بدران‎) (born 1934) is a retired Jordanian politician.

Badran was born in Jerash, Jordan. He served as firstly as the secret service dirctor in the 1970's, which was when the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan was facing a civil war against the "Feda'eyn". He also served as a Minister of Education of Jordan. Moreover he was the prime minister of Jordan from 1976 to 1984 with a brief interruption from 1979 until 1980. He served as prime minister again from 1989 to 1991. He served more than nine years as the prime minster of Jordan, which made him the second prime minister of Jordan to spend such a long time.^[1] He also served as foreign minister from 1976 to 1979 and as defense minister for most of the time that he was prime minister. He was a close associate of Jordanian king Hussein.

Badran's younger brother, Adnan Badran is also a Jordanian politician.^[2]

References

1. ^ "Prime Ministers of The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan". Government of Jordan. http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/government2_list.html. Retrieved 22 February 2010. 
2. ^ "New Jordanian government to be sworn in". Khaleej Times. http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2005/April/middleeast_April179.xml&section=middleeast. Retrieved 22 February 2010. 

Preceded by Zaid al-Rifai	Prime Minister of Jordan 1976–1979	Succeeded by Abdelhamid Sharaf
Preceded by Kassim al-Rimawi	Prime Minister of Jordan 1980–1984	Succeeded by Ahmad al-Ubaydat
Preceded by Zaid ibn Shaker	Prime Minister of Jordan 1989–1991	Succeeded by Taher al-Masri

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Name	Badran, Mudar
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Date of birth	1934
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