231:. She was one of the first cast at this TV channel, since she applied when they were first opening the channel, although she didn't know very much about television and or about the requirements of the job. Her father was against this job at first because he thought that it was like an acting job. This pushed her father to go with her while applying for the oral and written exam where she was competing against 120 people, but she passed both superiorly. She worked for 8 years there as a TV host. However, she used to get disturbed by the limitations put upon her due to the nature of this job, such as time limitations. And she always wanted to get into journalism, yet she didn't know how to get into that field.
251:, one of her closest friends and owner of An-Nahar, advised her to write novels. Since then, she published 10 novels and simultaneously wrote kids' stories, such as her first book that was in French "Le jardin de Sarah". At first, her brother and mother were her main inspiration. Most of her writings find essence from painful and melancholic stories. But before being a writer, she was a reader. In an interview with journalist Nadia Nouaihed, she declared that her favorite writers and poets were
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Menassa was a committee member in Al-Bustan Festivals. She was also a member of the society for the protection of the environment as well as Auxilia and Sesobel. She also used to participate in more than ten conferences yearly, talking about journalism and culture and in particular the importance
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offering her a job to be responsible for the new section of entertainment they were planning on opening. This section discussed women related topics, which was the main subject concerned in
Menassa's TV shows. She directly accepted the offer feeling it was a way for her to work freely using pen and
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at university before perusing a career in journalism. She became a novelist and a journalist. She only married once and had a son, Walid
Menassa, before getting a divorce later on. May Menassa started her career in 1959 as a broadcaster, she was the first woman at the time to enter the Lebanese
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May
Menassa died at the age of 80, on the January 19th 2019. After her death, she was buried next to her mother in North Lebanon, Bsharri. Writing was a big part of her life, her legacy and works will always be remembered due to the multiple books and articles that she wrote.
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Menassa never thought of giving up and migrating, yet she always fought for the right word to be said. Her vision was that people in her country, Lebanon, should put their hands together, disregarding who their leader is, to build a new improved country.
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In 1998 she publishes her first novel in Arabic: "Awraq min dafater chajarat rumman" (أوراق من دفاتر شجرة رمان، رواية، دار النهار) that talks about a past family tragedy: her brother's sickness. This same tragedy was brought up by
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started in 1975. During this war, she continued doing her job as a journalist, visiting regions where both parties were fighting. She used to observe how people were living there despite what was going on around.
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