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She was arrested at a hideout in the casbah in 1957 but freed five years later, when Algeria declared independence in 1962, sparking the mass exodus of Europeans from the country.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2021

In that masterwork of ripped-from-the-headlines realism, Morricone’s terse, electrifying percussion seems to merge with the pounding footfalls of soldiers marching up and down the steps of the casbah.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2020

Outside his window lies a whirl of cheap goods, dingy liquor stores and panhandlers, but Mr. Parker is tranquil, his apartment a luminous casbah of exotic décor.

From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2015

Clashes broke out on Wednesday near government offices in the old city, or casbah.

From Reuters • Jan. 27, 2011

The building is now called the casbah, and used as a large barrack; outside are the Moorish houses, and the chief part of the Moorish population.

From Notes in North Africa Being a Guide to the Sportsman and Tourist in Algeria and Tunisia by Windham, W. G.