 Having studied Linguistics at the École Normale Supérieure d'Alger, where she obtained her Ph.D. in the subject, Ben Mansour went on to teach it at the and communications at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers.She received the "Prix méditerranéen de la nouvell"e in 1996 for her short story "Le Cocu Cadi".Her novel, "La Prière de la peur", 1997 (ed.