In the historic casbah, which slinks down a steep slope toward the Bay of Algiers, there are neither tour groups nor beckoning salespeople. When I settle into a rooftop divan at the restaurant Dar El ...

While in Benghazi, police knew the trouble spots to head to when rioting started in February. But Algiers’ casbah – a warren of 16th-century souks, homes and Ottoman bathhouses – encapsulates this ...

A child of the Casbah, he is the brilliant author of a film shot in the streets of Algiers in 1970, Tahya Ya Didou. Through this unique work, Zinet invents a new cinema, tells another story ...

Djamila, a young Algerian woman living with her brother Hadi and her uncle Mustafa in the Casbah district of Algiers under the French occupation of Algeria, sees the full extent of injustice ...