A woman talks to her child from the window

A woman talks to her child from the window of her moorish house in the Algiers Casbah March 16, 2008. 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 centuries in defiance of European power. TO FEATURE-Algeria struggles to save Casbah from collapse. But the deadliest of the many blows suffered by Algiers' disintegrating old quarter may actually be contemporary neglect by successive governments of modern Algeria. Picture taken March 16.
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