Born at Casablanca in 1948, Belaïd is drawing
since his boyhood. After 30 years in Paris, studying draw, painting, sculpture
and photography at the "academy of plastic arts" of "la Garenne Colombes" (92),
at "la Grande
Chaumière and at "academy Frochot" in Paris. He is now back in Morocco and installed at Essaouira.