An Algerian actor born in the famous Kasbah district in Algiers in 1928, where he received his first education until the age of fourteen, when the American and English army occupied on November 8, 1942 the school in which he was studying. He resorted to working life in the family's bakery. His political activity began early, as he participated in the demonstrations organized by the Algerian People's Party on May 1, 1945, and then the demonstrations of May 8, 1945.