- Mayy Minassā (1939 – 2019, Lebanon) – Qataltu Ummī li-Aḥyā (‘I killed my mother to live’, 2017). When Rashā, a young girl with autism, overhears that her mother died whilst giving birth to her and her twin, she suffers a trauma. She spends her live feeling guilty and repeating the sentence ‘I killed my mother to live’ (reference). Unable to further express her feelings through words, she draws. When she travels to an autism treatment centre in Belgium, her drawings become a way to analyse her ‘crime’. When she meets the theatre director Ḍiyāʾ, however, she slowly comes out of her own world (reference).
Refrences:
- Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥman. 2019. “‘Qataltu Ummī li-Aḥyā’.. Riwāyah al-Wadāʿa li-‘Mayy Minassā’.” www.youm7.com, 20 January 2019 https://www.youm7.com/story/2019/1/20/قتلت-أمى-لأحيا-رواية-الوداع-لـ-مى-منسى/4111197 (last accessed 17 February 2023)