Born in the Casbah of Algiers in 1935, Mustapha Preure (in arabic : مصطفى بريور) attended the Sarrouy school in Soustara, and when he was only 6 years old, he began practicing the 4th Art with the theater troupe "El Kotb" of the Pêcherie d'Alger, within the Algerian Muslim Scouts. Some time later, he joined the troupe "El Manar El Djazaïri", then under the leadership of Mohamed Zinet and Réda Bastandji,