Mahi Binebine (Arabic: ماحي بنيبين) is a Moroccan painter and novelist born in Marrakech in 1959.

[1][2][3][4] Born in 1959 in Marrakech, Mahi Binebine moved to Paris in 1980 to continue his studies in mathematics, which he taught for eight years.

His brother Aziz was one of the young officers who had taken part in the failed military coup against King Hassan II in 1971.

Mahi Binebine's fellow writer Tahar Ben Jelloun took this story as the basis for his novel This Blinding Absence of Light.

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