Amer Saadi Shakour was born in Ma'an in 1965. He completed his primary, preparatory, and secondary education there, then pursued his higher education in Iraq at Salahaddin University. He earned a masters degree from Middle East University in Amman and a doctorate from Red Sea University in Sudan. He worked as a teacher for the Ministry of Education from 1996 to 2012, after which he joined Al-Hussein University, where he has remained to the present day.