Suzy Kassem
Also Known as "Blue Panther"

In Brief

Suzy Kassem is a Los Angeles-based Egyptian-American film director, writer, and poet. Born in 1975 to first-generation Egyptians in America, Suzy Kassem defies simple classification. As a synergist between eastern and western influences, her body of work captures her multidimensionality as a gifted artist and true Renaissance woman.

A master of writing poetry, prose, screenplays, and articles on a vast spectrum of topics in both English and Arabic, Suzy is determined to construct a new edge for herself as a powerfully versatile writer merging Western and Eastern influences with a freshly hip international perspective. She is determined to follow the likes of Khalil Gibran, Egyptian Noble Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz, the Kerouac cats, Sufi poets of the 700-800s, the beat poetry of Allen Ginsberg and transcendentalists of the likes of Whitman and Emerson.

Her forthcoming collection of poetry titled Rise Up and Salute the Sun will be published by Awakened Press in September of 2009 and an Arabic version of the same title will be released in Cairo, Egypt in December of 2009 and January of 2010 by two seperate publishing houses.

Suzy Kassem is passionate and generous with words and has a knack and range for building an arsenal of voices. She uses different styles and tones that communicate common street and world sentiments across all age groups - with wisdom and unconfined humor. She is a mystical poet and a revolutionary 21st century thinker. She is also the daughter of the Sun and the visionary voice of the cosmos. She uses the pen as a weapon to bring light to her readers and open portals in their minds that get them to act, think, and feel. Peace is her ultimate message. Love for humanity is the fuel that pushes her to keep writing to awaken the masses and bring the world to synergize – one reader at a time.

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