With almost each step you take in the narrow, winding alleys of the tumbledown Casbah in Algiers, a resident approaches to remind you of the past glories of this UNESCO World Heritage Site. Historic ...

A boy peeks through a doorway that serves as the main entrance of a house. Eric Sander "You want to see what is happening to the Casbah?" the slender man asks in French, as I make my way down a steep ...

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ALGIERS (Reuters) - From cutlass and canon to earthquake and flood, powerful forces have long done damage to the Algiers Casbah, fabled bastion of Barbary pirates who plied the Mediterranean for ...

Algerian security forces sealed off the historic old city in Algiers, the capital, for more than 24 hours in a continuing operation against Muslim militants, Algiers residents said Wednesday. Gunfire ...

Strangely enough, this season’s most electrifying and urgently topical movie was filmed not last year but nearly four decades ago. A stunningly vivid, endlessly thought-provoking chronicle of the ...

Watching Gillo Pontecorvo’s classic film, The Battle of Algiers, nearly 40 years after its initial release is both exhilarating and educational. There is not one false moment in the film.

“Pepe le Moko” is the stuff that dreams are made of. An acknowledged classic of doomed romanticism and atmospheric fatalism, this 1937 French film was such a hit on its release that Hollywood promptly ...