Karim Kassem
Born	Karim Ahmed Kassem (1986-10-08) 8 October 1986 (age 38) Cairo, Egypt
Education	American University in Cairo
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2006–present

Karim Ahmed Kassem (Arabic: كريم أحمد قاسم, Kareem Ahmad Qassem, Egyptian Arabic: [kæɾˈiːm ʔæːsem], also spelled Karim Assem; born 8 October 1986) is an Egyptian actor.

Karim was born on 8 October 1986 in Cairo, Egypt. He is a Muslim himself though had a multi-faith religious upbringing celebrating all Jewish, Christian and Muslim holidays as a child. His late mother was Jewish and his father is a Muslim and is from both Islamic and Christian faith heritage. His paternal grandfather was Muslim and his paternal grandmother was a Christian. His maternal grandfather was a Jewish anti-Zionist who refused to immigrate to Israel, believing Zionism to be a "racist" movement.^[1][2][3] His maternal grandfather was a prominent Egyptian nationalist.

He is a graduate of the American University in Cairo, where he studied theatre and acted in many of the university's plays.^[4] He is trilingual in Egyptian Arabic (also Standard Arabic), French and English.^[4]

Discovered in 2006 while taking an acting workshop,^[5] he had his cinematic breakthrough in the teen drug film Awqat Faragh meaning "Spare time".^[6] Kassem has co-starred with colleague Amr Abed in three of his films.^[4]

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