His interest in art began in his childhood in Mount Carmel, where he found joy in activities like making kites, drawing colorful maps, and sketching with charcoal from photographs.
[4] Amoura graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Baghdad in 1970, where he trained with influential Iraqi artists, including painters Faiq Hassan, Kadhim Hayder, and Ismail Al-Shaikhly, as well as sculptor Mohammed Ghani Hikmat.
Alongside contemporaries such as Mahmoud Taha and Yaser Dweik, Amoura sought to express a distinctive Jordanian artistic identity while asserting Arab cultural heritage.
This movement blended local subject matter, folk motifs, and Arabic calligraphy within a broader international artistic framework, significantly shaping modern Jordanian art.
[7] Throughout his career, Amoura received numerous accolades, including the Golden Sail Prize at the Kuwait Biennial in 1985, the International Visiting Artist Grant from U.S.I.A.