Naseema Mohamed, (also known as Naseema Mohamed Kaleyfaanu) was the former

First Lady of the Maldives First Lady of the Maldives () is the title attributed to the wife of the President of the Maldives, president of the Maldives. The title of First Lady is utilized by the government and official publications. The country's current first lady is Sa ...

from 1969 to 1978 and the third wife of former

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Ibrahim Nasir Ibrahim Nasir Rannabandeyri Kilegefan (; ; 2 September 1926 – 22 November 2008), , commonly known as Ibrahim Nasir, was a Maldivians, Maldivian politician who served as the Prime Minister of the Maldives from 1957 to 1968 under the monarchy, a ...

. After Ibrahim Nasir went into self-exile to

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on 7 December 1978, Naseema continued to live in Male' and worked as a historian for the National Centre for Linguistic and Historic Research. She has written extensively on early

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and the

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language. She had also previously worked as a nurse. Currently working for

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. She worked at the Maldives

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, retiring in 2011. She received the National Exemplary Service Medal in 2011. Naseema served as an advisor to the Ministry of Arts, Culture and Heritage.

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