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 ...