"Our success is not measured by what we accomplish, but by the oppositions we have encountered, and the courage with which we have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds." Orison Swett Marden
Nadeem was born in West Yorkshire on 1 May, 1972. Despite attending what was termed by a television programme as "one of the ten worst schools in England" and having to work in warehouses 
since the age of nine, he was a determined student and gained 11 GCSEs, more than anybody in his school of 1,500 students. He went on to start 7 A levels, but was restricted by his school to only 5, all of which he passed.
He was awarded numerous academic prizes over the years and was delighted to receive one from his footballing heros, lanky centre forward Ian Ormondroyd.
He was a keen programmer since childhood and wrote games for the Commodore 64 and other computers. Based on rave reviews in Computer and Video Games and other magazines of one game, he was offered a job in Electronic Arts in the USA. Unknown to them he was only 16 years old and had to turn down the position and a new life in California.
He left Yorkshire in 1992 to pursue his literary and political ambitions in the big smoke and has lived by himself in London ever since. Nadeem has worked in journalism, the IT industry and for a number of charities. Circumstances have not permitted him to write for the last decade, but is desperately looking forward to being able to do so in the near future as soon as possible.
Nadeem has resided in Tooting, Earl's Court and Camden. In 2004, he moved to an apartment in a Georgian house in Bloomsbury, central London and is still busy refurbishing the place. In his spare time he likes to read: some of his favourite authors are Jane Austen, Bernard Malamud, Edward Said and Ali Shariati, and he rarely leaves home without a copy of his beloved London Review of Books to read on the tube.
Click here to watch short film which reflects Azam's experiences with women. And here's why he may have had problems finding a partner!
Do you believe you change somebody's entire life? Give a poor child a brighter future for the price of one bottle of alcohol a month. Click here to find out about child sponsorship through Nadeem's favourite charity, Children International. Thank you.
