Mai Mansi Books

Lebanese writer and novelist. She began her career in 1959 on Lebanon TV, presenter and producer of two programs: "Women of the Day" and "Jerf on the Path of Extinction". In 1969, she joined An-Nahar newspaper, as a critic in literature, theater and music affairs. Editor-in-chief of the monthly "Your Beauty" magazine. She holds a postgraduate diploma in French literature. She began her journalistic career in 1959 on television and worked as a critic for the Lebanese newspaper "An-Nahar" since 1969. She has published seven novels in Arabic and two in French, in addition to a children's book and many translations, most of them from French into Arabic. She is the sister of the Lebanese novelist and poet Venus Khoury-Ghata, who won the French Goncourt Prize for Poetry for her entire work.