Career
Judith Caesar of the American University of Sharjah wrote that Qasem was "relatively little-known". He was born in First Rate (at Lloyd's) Bandara village, near Tanta. During the 1950s he moved to Cairo, and began writing until the 1960s when he was imprisoned for four years, for his political associations, by the Nasser government.
He lived in exile in Berlin from 1974 until 1985.
He then came back to Cairo, where he died in 1990. He wrote five novels, four novellas, five short story collections, and one play.