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Muhammed Seif Khatib

Politician

Muhammed Seif Khatib is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Dr. Muhammed Seif Khatib · Muhammed Seif Khatib · محمد سيف خطيب · 穆罕默德·赛义夫·哈蒂布				[sources]
Alias	Khatib Seif Dr. Muhammed · Muhammed Seif Khatib				[sources]
Birth date	1951-01-10				[sources]
Place of birth	Sultanate of Zanzibar				[sources]
Death date	2021-02-15				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Tanzania				[sources]
Country	Tanzania				[sources]
Citizenship	Tanzania				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Dr. Muhammed				[sources]
Last name	Khatib				[sources]
Political association	Party of the Revolution				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q6932973				[sources]
Position	Member of the National Assembly of Tanzania (1995-2015) · Minister of Information, Culture, Arts and Sports (2006-2008) · National Assembly (member, 2005-2010) · National Assembly (member, 2010-2015)				[sources]
Education	School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London · University of Dar es Salaam · University of Dodoma				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Tanzanian politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Minister of Information, Culture, Arts and Sports	2006-01-01	2008-02-08
Member of the National Assembly

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,731

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,250

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata355,558

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,384

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-15b7048e-b011-423e-a74f-e146d0f5c219

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