Zahroun Mulla Khidr bin Badran bin Qarjar Al-Zahroun Amara (Arabic: زهرون الملا خضر بن بدران بن قارجار ال زهرون عمارة), known simply as Zahroun Amara (also spelled Zahrun, Zahron or Zahroon Amarah; Arabic: زهرون عمارة; Classical Mandaic: ࡆࡀࡄࡓࡅࡍ ࡀࡌࡀࡓࡀ), was an Iraqi niello silversmith and jeweler who was born in Amarah, Iraq in the late 19th century.
[1]: 1 [2][3] Zahroun Amara was known by many nobles and monarchs around the world and was the doyen and most renowned of the 'Amarah Silverworkers', with his signature on silverware prized by royalty.
[2][5][6][7][3] Zahroun Amara also copied Mandaic texts, including Pišra ḏ-Šambra ("A Phylactery for Rue"), for the Lebanese Christian priest and scholar Anastas al-Karmali.
The British Minister of Munitions at the time, Winston Churchill, had a silver cigar box commissioned by Stanley Maude which was decorated with a niello portrait of Churchill with his arm raised in addition to a niello image of the British battleship HMS Victoria.
One of the Prince of Wales' (Edward VIII) highly prized possessions was a decorated cigarette case made by Zahroun.