Aziz Amoura

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.