Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Mohamed Tawfik Naseem | |
Office: | 13th Prime Minister of Egypt |
Term Start: | 20 May 1920 |
Term End: | 16 March 1921 |
Predecessor: | Youssef Wahba |
Successor: | Adly Yakan Pasha |
Term Start1: | 30 November 1922 |
Term End1: | 15 March 1923 |
Monarch1: | Fuad I |
Predecessor1: | Abdel Khalek Sarwat Pasha |
Successor1: | Yahya Ibrahim Pasha |
Term Start2: | 15 November 1934 |
Term End2: | 30 January 1936 |
Monarch2: | Fuad I |
Predecessor2: | Abdel Fattah Yahya Pasha |
Successor2: | Ali Mahir Pasha |
Birth Date: | 30 June 1871 |
Birth Place: | Cairo, Eyalet of Egypt |
Death Place: | Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt |
Party: | Ittihad Party |
Native Name Lang: | ar |
Honorific Suffix: | Pasha GCMG |
Mohamed Tawfik Naseem Pasha GCMG (Arabic: محمد توفيق نسيم باشا; June 30, 1871 – March 8, 1938) was an Egyptian political figure of Turkish origin.[1] He served as the prime minister of Egypt between May 1920 and 1921, again from 1922 until 1923, and finally between 1934 and 1936. He was also Minister of the Interior under Yusuf Wahba Pasha from November 1919 to May 1920. He was Minister of Finance in 1924.[2]
He went to lawschool where he met other notable Egyptians such as the intellectual and activist Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed, Isma'il Sedky, and the journalist Mustafa Kamil.[3]
He was appointed Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) by King George V of the United Kingdom in December 1920. He married on 9 August 1901 the Egyptian Princess Munira (28 October 1884 - 18 November 1944) a granddaughter of Isma'il Pasha (paternal side) and a great-granddaughter of Abbas I of Egypt (maternal side), but divorced on 12 March 1924.