Biographies of May Menassa

May Menassa was born in Beirut in 1939 and holds a postgraduate diploma in French Literature. She began her career as a broadcast journalist in 1959. She was the first woman broadcaster in the early days of Lebanese television and presenter of the “Women of Today” programme. She has worked as a literary and music critic for the Lebanese newspaper An Nahar since 1969. She has published 10 novels, as well as two children’s books and has worked on many translations, mainly from French into Arabic.

ولدت في بيروت عام 1939. حصلت علی دبلوم دراسات عليا في الأدب الفرنسي. بدأت مشوارها المهنية في الصحافة منذ عام 1959 في تلفزيون لبنان، مذيعة ومعدّة برنامجين: نساء اليوم وجرف على طريق الزوال. التحقت في سنة 1969 بجريدة النهار، کناقدة في شؤون الأدب والمسرح والموسيقى.