In 2000, the Casbah Foundation, in cooperation with the then-governor of Algiers, Cherif Rahmani, an ardent preservationist, undertook the most ambitious project yet to save the old city.

In the fall of 1956, while serving with the French army in the Algerian backcountry, Ted Morgan killed a rebel soldier during an interrogation. The man had been strung up with his hands tied ...

Last fall, I got on a plane in Paris and took off for Algeria, one of the most terrible places on Earth. Algeria today is defined by senseless violence; grotesquely cruel acts are commonplace.

Near the end of The Battle of Algiers, the 1966 film directed by Italian leftist Gillo Pontecorvo, crowds waving flags and chanting slogans surge into the streets of the Algerian capital. The ...

[See also: This is no time for politics, says Israeli hostages’ daughter] The artistry of The Battle of Algiers lies in its refusal to permit this kind of decontextualisation, to which much of the ...

Algiers (AFP) – A UNESCO-listed rabbit warren of 16th-century battlements and Ottoman palaces, the Casbah of the Algerian capital is falling into disrepair, but efforts to save it have been ...

A UNESCO-listed rabbit warren of 16th-century battlements and Ottoman palaces, the Casbah of the Algerian capital is falling into disrepair, but efforts to save it have been accelerating.

A UNESCO-listed rabbit warren of 16th-century battlements and Ottoman palaces, the Casbah of the Algerian capital is falling into disrepair, but efforts ...

The Battle of Algiers was filmed in 1965 as a co-production between an Italian creative team and the new Algerian FLN ... while the Casbah is steep and sloping.