Susan Talhouk

“if you put your heart in everything you do, life becomes an overwhelming experience.”

Bio:
Susan Talhouk was born in Aitat, Lebanon in 1977.
Talhouk is a graduate of the Lebanese University Faculty of Science, holding a Masters Degree in Physics.  She has participated in four plays under the patronage of the Ministry of Education. The most recent being, “Kana AL Shahida AL Shahida”, a play about the Qana Massacre of 1996.
She is currently leading a career in advertising and marketing, looking forward to the day she can be a full time writer. Talhouk’s writing can be read online at www.elaph.com. Her first book of poetry is to be published Summer 2006.

Statement:
I have always believed in the heart to be the center, and I believe if we can direct the spirit of the heart in things we do in life then life will become an enchanting experience. For me, writing was where I directed my heart, and through writing, I expressed myself and I exposed the real me which had been hiding under the dust of life attachments and desires and the only way to bring it to life again was through writing.

I call myself a seeker not expecting to arrive anywhere but living my journey so fully by writing down my inner struggle, deep longing, real pain, and madness, by offering myself to life and revealing as much as I dare “my masks”. Sometimes it’s really sore and sometimes really ecstatic, but in both cases it’s what life offers.

My book is a gratitude and appreciation to my beloved father for all the love and support of life he gave me. Through the words of my newborn book I share with him my experiences of finding the real me. Sometimes you don’t really need to see people to know they exist, my father was one of those, even when he passed away, I always felt he was there pumping me with life and fed my spirit with joy and I wrote in his name.

Today I offer you my beloved dad my first newborn baby. Today with delight and respect, I share with you my friends my thoughts and feelings. Today for everyone who is a reader of my book, I ask you to allow me to consider you a friend, for you are the friend with whom I will be sharing all my experiences, sorrows and joys through my first newborn book, which I deliver after 10 years with no desire of a boy or a girl, with no expectation of an extraordinary outcome, but with one hope to touch your life.