Melehi became a professor at the
School of Fine Arts of Casablanca, teaching painting, sculpture, and photography (1964 - 1969). He died in Paris.
In 1969, Melehi and his colleagues of the Casablanca school, including
Farid Belkahia,
Mohamed Chabâa,
Mohamed Ataallah,
Mohamed Hamidi and Mustapha Hafid organized an , or protest exhibition, entitled . The artists displayed their works in
Jemaa el-Fnaa in the
Marrakesh medina, snubbing an official Moroccan art salon of happening at the same time. This exhibition is regarded as the founding moment of
modernism in Morocco. "We took a position against the government", Melehi said in an interview with
The Guardian, "Our works were in Jemaa el-Fnaa square for a week, exposed to the sun and wind. It was an ideological message about what art could be." == Death ==