Education
In 1980 Mahi Binebine went to Paris and studied mathematics, in which he was a teacher for eight years.
In 1980 Mahi Binebine went to Paris and studied mathematics, in which he was a teacher for eight years.
Binebine has written six novels which have been translated into various languages. 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.
Foreign 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 novel This Blinding Absence of Light.
lieutenant was made into a feature film in Morocco in 2011, called Horses Of God, directed by Nabil Ayouch and selected for the official Moroccan entry for best foreign language film for the 2013 Oscars.
