Preserving Algeria’s Casbah heritage through generations of leather craft

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For centuries, traditional arts and crafts have survived in its narrow alleys of the Casbah in Algiers.
But artists and crafts-people say a lack of interest and patronage is bringing their way of life to an end.
This is the story of Boulachab Nasser, who fears he could be the last of generations of leatherworkers in the neighbourhood.

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