Famous People with Name Kassem

Kassem Ibrahim "Freddy" Deeb            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kassem Ibrahim "Freddy" Deeb: is a professional poker player who emigrated from Lebanon to the United States at the age of 19. Deeb was attending Utah State University when civil war broke out in Lebanon in 1975. He lost contact with his parents (who had been sending him money to support his education) for two years. Deeb was unable to gain employment due to the restrictions of his student visa, so he began gambling. Deeb was forced to leave his education, just 12 credits away from graduating with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Kassem Ibrahim            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kassem Ibrahim: is a professional poker player who emigrated from Lebanon to the United States at the age of 19. At the 1996 World Series of Poker (WSOP), he won the $5,000 Deuce to Seven Draw event, receiving $146,250 and besting a field that also contained Mickey Apple

Suzy Kassem            Origin/Culture/Country: Egyptian

Suzy Kassem: is a Los Angeles-based Egyptian-American film director, artist, writer, philosopher, and poet.Following her 2001 release of Camera Eye: The Screenwriter’s Almanac, her forthcoming collection of poetry titled, Rise Up and Salute the Sun will be published by Awakened Press in November 2010 and an Arabic version of the same title will be released in Cairo, Egypt by two separate publishing houses.

Moustapha Kassem            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Moustapha Kassem: is a scientist, physician and endocrinologist based in Denmark. He received his medical degree from Kasr-el-Aini Medical School, Cairo University, Egypt (1985) and received his post-graduate training in internal medicine and endocrinology in Denmark and USA. He obtained his PhD degree (1994) and DSc degrees (1998) from Aarhus University, Denmark. He had a post-doctoral fellowship at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA where he worked with professor B. L. Riggs. Moustapha Kassem's research focus is mechanisms of bone formation and stem cell differentiation into skeletal tissues. He combines methodologies of clinical medicine with state-of-the-art technologies of cell and molecular biology. Moustapha Kassem has developed normal and immortalized cell lines for studying human skeletal (mesenchymal) stem cells and their differentiation potential. Moustapha Kassem has also studied aging of bone cells and the effects of donor age on their biological functions. Moustapha Kassem is a co-founder of Stem Cell Treatment Center at Odense University Hospital (OUH), where stem cell therapy is being introduced into clinical practice and PhD graduate school of Stem Cells and Related Technologies.