Maliheh Afnan Majbouri was born in Haifa, Palestine. Although he was not a member of the Bahá'í Community, he was a great-grandson of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith. Maliheh Afnan moved to Beirut with her family in 1949. He received a BA from the American University of Beirut and a Master of Fine Arts from the Corcoran School of Art and Design in Washington, D.C. Afnan lived in Kuwait in 1963-1966. He lived in Beirut from 1966 to 1974 and from 1974 to 1997 in Paris, then moved to London. Afna's works were exhibited primarily in France and London. In 1971, the first solo show at the Basel gallery was organized by the American artist Mark Tobey. His works are included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the British Museum in London, the German Collection of Written Art, the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, and the BAII Bank Collection in Paris.