[3] After finishing high school, El Alami moved to Paris and signed up for 1000 Visages, an organization founded by actress Houda Benyamina aimed at making the film industry more accessible.
[12] In 2021, El Alami starred in Al Hadi Ulad-Mohand's drama Life Suits Me Well,[13] and appeared in a short film titled Les engloutis, directed by Caroline Guiela Nguyen.
[15] In January 2022, El Alami starred in the TV mini-series Une si longue nuit, a TF1 remake of the police procedural crime drama television series Criminal Minds.
He played Sami, a student from Marseille who becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a young woman following a night of heavy drinking.
[19] El Alami had a supporting role in Lisa Azuelos' 2023 drama The Book of Wonders (La Chambre des merveilles).
[22] He also starred alongside Paul Kircher in Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma's coming-of-age And Their Children After Them (Leurs enfants après eux).