Mahi Binebine

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Mahi Binebine (Arabic: ماهي بنيبين‎) is a Moroccan painter and novelist born in Marrakech in 1959. Binebine has written six novels which have been translated into various languages.^[1]

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.

In "Mamaya’s Last Journey" the author is drawing on an episode from his own family history. His brother Aziz was one of the young officers who had taken part in the failed military coup against King Hassan II in 1971. For 18 years, he was imprisoned in the desert camp of Tazmamart, under conditions of unimaginable and almost indescribable brutality. Of the 56 prisoners, only half survived; among them, Aziz Binebine. Mahi Binebine’s fellow writer Tahar Ben Jelloun took this story as the basis for his controversial novel This Blinding Absence of Light.

Welcome to Paradise, the English translation of Cannibales, was short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2004.

Novels

• Le griot de Marrakech, Ed. L'Aube, ISBN 2-7526-0212-X
• Cannibales : Traversée dans l'enfer de Gibraltar, Ed. L'AUBE, ISBN 2-7526-0155-7 (English Translation Welcome to Paradise)
• Terre d'ombre brulée, Ed. Fayard, ISBN 2-213-61762-7
• Le sommeil de l'esclave, Ed. Stock, ISBN 2-234-02488-9

Footnotes

1. ^ Abdellatif Laabi, L'écriture au tournant: Mahi Binebine, ed. Al Manar, ISBN 2-913896-09-X

External links

• Bibliomonde [1] (retrieved on Feb. 11, 2009)
• Official website of Mahi Binebine (French)
• Qantara.de [2]

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Name	Binebine, Mahi
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