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.