Mahi Binebine is a Morrocan painter and novellist born in Marrakech in 1959. Binebine has written six novels which have been translated into various languages. In 1980 Mahi Binebine went to Paris and studied mathematics, in which he was a teacher for eight years. After that he devoted himself to writing and painting. He emigrated to New York and lived there from 1994 to 1999. Some of his paintings form part of the Guggenheim collection. He returned to Marrakesh in 2002. Wikipedia
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