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.