Karim Abdel Gawad (Arabic: كَرِيم عَبْد الْجَوَاد; born 30 July 1991) is an Egyptian professional squash player.

In November 2016, he won the 2016 World Open Squash Championship in Cairo in Egypt against Ramy Ashour.

He became the third Egyptian to win the World Championship after Amr Shabana and Ashour.

He damaged his heel, which eventually led to ten months out of squash and his world ranking plummeted as a result.

[5] It completed a remarkable comeback from the injury he suffered the previous year.