[1] While training, Karima booked his first role in the short film TAG for BBC IPlayer.
Just before his last college performance, Karima landed a regular role in the tenth and final series of the BBC school drama Waterloo Road as Abdul Bukhari.
Karima was then cast alongside Shahab Hosseini in the feature film Gholem in 2015.
In 2016, Karima appeared in the second season of the Fox series Tyrant as Kasim Al-Yazbek and landed a role in the BBC series Moving on.
In 2017, Karima played Ant in the Netflix film iBoy.