Omar Momani Biography

Omar Momani (born April 25, 1981) is a Jordanian cartoonist and animator renowned for his sports editorial cartoons featured on platforms such as Goal, the Bundesliga, Fox Sports, Bleacher Report, and others.

Momani began his animation career at Abu Mahjoob Studio in Jordan in 2005. While at the studio, he contributed to an animated show for Jordanian TV, which was nominated for Best Foreign Animated Series at the Annecy Animation Festival in 2006. He later served as the animation team leader for the Emirati show Shaabia Al Cartoon شعبية الكرتون, working on four seasons from 2007 to 2010.

In 2010, Momani transitioned to creating sports editorial cartoons, gaining attention from the football news website Goal, which began publishing his work. This exposure led to collaborations with other major sports outlets including the Bundesliga, Bleacher Report, Ligue 1, Sporting News, Fox Sports, Wimbledon, the Arabian Gulf League, and Al Arabi Al Jadeed newspaper, among others. Momani was nominated for the Best International Football Blog by the Football Blogging Awards in 2016, 2018, and 2019.

                                                           

Pixel77 and Creative Bloq recognized Momani as one of the top five animators to follow on Twitter.

In 2024, he was a TEDx speaker in Amman, Jordan.

For more information: These Football Times article

For business inquiries: info@omar-momani.com

Some of Momani's clients