Karim Ahmed Kassem ( ar, كريم أحمد قاسم, rtl=yes, , , also spelled Karim Assem; born 8 October 1986) is an

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actor.

Biography

Karim was born on 8 October 1986 in Cairo, Egypt. He is a

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himself though had a multi-faith religious upbringing celebrating all Jewish,

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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

. His maternal grandfather was a Jewish anti-Zionist who refused to immigrate to Israel, believing Zionism to be a "racist" movement. His maternal grandfather was a prominent Egyptian nationalist. He is a graduate of the

American University in Cairo The American University in Cairo (AUC; ar, الجامعة الأمريكية بالقاهرة, Al-Jāmi‘a al-’Amrīkiyya bi-l-Qāhira) is a private research university in Cairo, Egypt. The university offers American-style learning programs ...

, where he studied theatre and acted in many of the university's plays. He is trilingual in Egyptian Arabic (also

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and English. Discovered in 2006 while taking an acting workshop, he had his cinematic breakthrough in the teen drug film ''

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'' meaning ''"Spare time"''. Kassem has co-starred with colleague Amr Abed in three of his films.

Filmography

Television

Theatre

References

External links

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Official Instagram page
1986 births Male actors from Cairo The American University in Cairo alumni Egyptian male film actors Egyptian male television actors Egyptian people of Jewish descent Living people Egyptian Muslims {{Egypt-actor-stub