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.
