Meryem Buhari was born in Konya in 1957. She retired from civil service in 2002. Buhari started taking tile classes at İSMEK in 2007, and completed her training at the tile course at İznik Vocational High School. She participated in many exhibitions and festivals both at home and abroad as a Tile Decor Artist of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Buhari gave training courses as a tile processing instructor within the scope of “Rejuvenating the Nearly-Forgotten Artworks Project”. She continues her artistic works at her workshop in Yalova Çiflikköy. Some of the students she trained are Martina Erkorkmaz, Nebahat Kaya and Birge Şahin.