 He attended a primary school in his native village, then emigrated to Morocco to live in his uncle's house in Rabat.Four years later he returned to Algiers and pursued his studies at Bugeaud College, before continuing his education at Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, intending to join the École Normale Supérieure.Conscripted in 1939 and discharged in October 1940, Mammeri registered at the Faculté des Lettres d’Alger.