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 ...

The iconic, mazelike Casbah neighborhood in Algiers is disintegrating under the pressure of civil wars, earthquakes and overpopulation. Disintegrating along with it is a wealth of architectural ...

A boy waves as he stands behind the door of a Moorish house in the old city of Algiers Al Casbah, Algeria, Dec. 9, 2015.

Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Algiers' historic Casbah, or old quarter, bears the hallmarks and the scars of the country's turbulent past. During the bloody "black decade" of Algeria's ...

ALGIERS, Algeria – The white buildings of the Casbah spill down the steep hillside overlooking the curved Mediterranean bay of Algiers. Barbary pirates had their headquarters here in the 16th ...

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.

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 ...

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.