Mahi Binebine is a writer, painter and sculptor. Mahi was born in Marrakech in 1959. He studied mathematics in Paris and taught the subject for eight years. He lived in New York between 1994 and 1999 when his paintings began to be acquired by the Guggenheim Museum. He returned to Morocco in 2002 and now lives in Marrakech with his family. Mahi has written six novels which have now been translated into more than a dozen languages.

Binebine s terse, bleak, compassionate Welcome to Paradise is both topical and rare in tracing the poverty and cruelty emigrants are escapin. Financial Times

Mahi Binebine is a writer, painter and sculptor. Mahi was born in Marrakech in 1959. He studied mathematics in Paris and taught the subject for eight years. He lived in New York between 1994 and 1999 when his paintings began to be acquired by the Guggenheim Museum. He returned to Morocco in 2002 and now lives in Marrakech with his family. Mahi has written six novels which have now been translated into more than a dozen languages.

Binebine s terse, bleak, compassionate Welcome to Paradise is both topical and rare in tracing the poverty and cruelty emigrants are escapin. Financial Times

Mahi Binebine is a writer, painter and sculptor. Mahi was born in Marrakech in 1959. He studied mathematics in Paris and taught the subject for eight years. He lived in New York between 1994 and 1999 when his paintings began to be acquired by the Guggenheim Museum. He returned to Morocco in 2002 and now lives in Marrakech with his family. Mahi has written six novels which have now been translated into more than a dozen languages.

Binebine s terse, bleak, compassionate Welcome to Paradise is both topical and rare in tracing the poverty and cruelty emigrants are escapin. Financial Times