# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/may-menassa
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:45:03.666Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/may-menassa"
name: "May Menassa"
slug: "may-menassa"
description: "May Menassa was a Lebanese journalist, writer, editor-in-chief, critic and translator, best known as the author of Walking in the Dust and I Killed My Mother in Order to Live. She was the first woman to enter the Lebanese television business and joined the only public television network at the time Télé Liban. She wrote a lot of articles and about ten novels."
tagline: "Lebanese journalist and novelist (1939-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/May-menassa.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1939-07-20"
deathDate: "2019-01-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.02
  momentum:             11.07287449392713
  historical:           5.673146666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.maymenassa.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Menassa"
    title: "May Menassa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A_%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%89"
    title: "مي منسى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%89"
    title: "مى منسى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Menassa"
    title: "May Menassa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Menassa"
    title: "May Menassa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Menassa"
    title: "May Menassa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4966992"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump