Norbert Schiller is a Mint Press photojournalist, creative producer and frequent contributor. Norbert has lived and worked in the Middle East and Africa as a news photographer for over 25 years with major news organizations including the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, United Press International, the New York Times and Der Spiegel. He covered three Iraq wars, conflicts and famine in the Horn of Africa, Salafist insurgencies in Egypt and North Africa and the Arab-Israeli conflict, to name a few.
A family packed on to a motorcycle is an everyday occur […]
While I was living in Dubai in the mid-1980s, a South African friend gave me a CD he thought I might like. It was by Johnny Clegg, a white musician who was raised in Rhodesia (now called Zimbabwe) and South Africa. Clegg became fascinated with music as a young boy after he watched Zulu street musicians and dancers perform. In 1969, Clegg formed his
Lebanese look at the remains of a bridge that was distr […]
In the quarterfinals of Euro 2012, the Italians (Azzurri) and English were scoreless after regulation play and overtime ended. All that stood between one of the teams advancing to the semifinals was the dreaded tie-breaking penalty shootout. I have been a longtime Azzurri supporter, so when my very good friend, who happens to be a die-hard
Hiking along the Lebanon Mountain Trail in the Beqaa Va […]
(LEBANON) - In the summer of 1957, Ralph Izzard, a journalist working for the London Daily Mail in Beirut, found out that he was about to be recalled to England after spending three years in Lebanon. Instead of spending his remaining months idle, he and his wife Molly decided to make the best of their limited time and take their four young
Mubarak during an interview in 1995. (photo Norbert Sch […]
The verdict in the trial against former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is due to be pronounced on June 2. Mubarak is accused of complicity in the killing of more than 800 demonstrators during the 18-day popular uprising that ousted him from power in February 2011. A guilty verdict could potentially send the former strongman, who ruled Egypt for
NATO summit, Chicago 2012
NATO summit, Chicago 2012
NATO summit, Chicago 2012
NATO summit, Chicago 2012
NATO summit, Chicago 2012
NATO summit, Chicago 2012
