Mari Alkatiri Politician

Mari Bim Amude Alkathiri (Arabic: مرعي بن عمودة الكثيري‎) Mar'ī bin Amūdah al-Kaṯīrī; born 26 November 1949) was the first Prime Minister of an internationally recognized East Timor. He served from May 2002 until he resigned on 26 June 2006 following weeks of political unrest in the country. He is the Secretary-General of the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (FRETILIN).He is Hadhrami Arab by ethnicity and comes from the Al-Kathiri tribe a branch of which was also the Royal family of Hadhramaut that is now part of Yemen. He is one of very few Muslim politicians in a country that is 97% Catholic.