Rabhi Zohra was born in 1944, in Aïn Sefra, in the province of Naâma, Algeria. She was a teacher from 1962 to 1969, when she decided to move to the capital, Algiers. There she became a journalist and worked for several major newspapers in the city, including APS (Algerian Press Service), Horizon and Algérie-Actualité.[3][4][5][6]