Mouloud Mimoun

Mouloud Mimoun is a journalist, editor-in-chief, director. He was one of the columnists and then the editor-in-chief between 1977 and 1987 of Mosaïque, France 3's pioneering program on immigration issues. In 2009, he created the Le Maghreb des Films association. Mouloud Mimoun was born in France to an Algerian family that immigrated during the First World War. In 1954 his family returned to Algeria, Mouloud was 10 years old. From his childhood in Paris, his passion for the seventh art remained. Even before he was 10 years old, he frequented the now-defunct Artistic Voltaire room with his friends. The good student will then join the Normal School of Teachers in Algiers, where he notices how few Algerians are compared to the “Europeans”. Until then, he felt French: that is now impossible. Especially since, during the last year of the war, he saw his establishment burned by supporters of the OAS. An FLN official then asked him to help him as “organizing secretary”.