Most of the Jews in the strife-wracked Casbah quarter of Algiers have been evacuated to a temporary shelter set up by the Consistoire Israelite of Algiers, the central Jewish organization in the ...

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 ...

ALGIERS (Reuters) - 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 ...

A man walks down a street in the historic Casbah of Algiers - Copyright AFP RYAD KRAMDI A man walks down a street in the historic Casbah of Algiers - Copyright AFP ...

Jews and Moslems have engaged during the last two days in severe fighting in the Casbah at Algiers, according to reports reaching here today despite the severe censorship imposed on Algerian ...

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 ...

ALGIERS — Much of the capital is boiling over with stifled anger at 20 years of police-state repression. But the Casbah, in the heart of Algiers, is strangely quiet, the ancient stone alleys empty in ...

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.

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When Gillo Pontecorvo’s “Battle of Algiers” opened in 1966, the neo-realist film about Algerian resistance fighters in French-occupied Algiers stunned audiences with its energy, filmmaking technique ...