Tameme, Mohammed

Doctoral Candidate, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom Mohammed Tameme is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Islamic finance (thesis title, “Islamic Housing Finance in the United Kingdom”) at Durham University. He studied economics at the International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan (BSC (Hons) 1989) under several well-known scholars of Islamic economics and finance, including Professor Khurshid Ahmed, Munawar Iqbal, Hussain Hamed Hassan, and Fahim Khan. He has been awarded the scholarship of the Muslims World League of postgraduate diploma in Islamic Studies at the University of Salford, England (Postgraduate Diploma, 1990). In 1991 he studied applied macroeconomics at the University of Liverpool, England (MA, 1992) under Professor Patrick Minford. Tameme worked as managing director at Civic Aid International (Khartoum, Sudan), business development manager at Falcon (London) Ltd, assistant press attaché at Sudan’s embassy in London, and was director of planning and investments at High Tech Group Sudan and the company’s representative for the High Tech Group (Sudan) in London.