Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

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One of the most startling and life-transforming books I've ever read. I'm a jolly fan! There is no book out that can compete with the sheer brilliance and intensity of this one. Suzy Kassem is prophetic. She absolutely blows my mind and forces me to re-analyze my role in the world and the universe.

I look up to her very much! She is very beautiful in the heart and very wise and modest. She does not use her external beauty for people to notice her. She is very clever about this even if it could attract more people to know about her. People talk about Malala in Italy as something new but Suzy Kassem has promoted the same values and issues long before this girl arrive.

Rise Up and Salute the Sun is an important work of philosophy from a woman, one that is clearly influenced by independent thought and not strictly feminist thinking which is usually typical of female philosophers. What is most striking about Kassem's thoughts and use of words is the comprehensiveness of their simplicity. The ability to take complex ideas and present them in an easy fluid matter is... read more

Description: From her ancestral homeland of Egypt to 7th Street in New York City, Suzy Kassem's hypnotic imagination transports readers into a mystical place filled with wisdom and infinite wonder -- a place where a little Egyptian girl can converse with the Sphinx, where an ordinary house mouse trapped under the floorboards of a senior center in Jersey can dream about exploring fields beyond his ordinary limits, and where a young woman named Peace can still crave a caramel apple from Coney Island -- while confined for eternity to the lonely hotel rooftop from which she leapt to her death twenty years ago. A powerful collection of philosophi From her ancestral homeland of Egypt to 7th Street in New York City, Suzy Kassem's hypnotic imagination transports readers into a mystical place filled with wisdom and infinite wonder -- a place where a little Egyptian girl can converse with the Sphinx, where an ordinary house mouse trapped under the floorboards of a senior center in Jersey can dream about exploring fields beyond his ordinary limits, and where a young woman named Peace can still crave a caramel apple from Coney Island -- while confined for eternity to the lonely hotel rooftop from which she leapt to her death twenty years ago.

A powerful collection of philosophical short stories, essays, and poetry laced with stardust and universal wisdom, Rise Up and Salute the Sun takes the reader on a transdimensional journey to explore the heart of one's true existence.

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