Norbert Schiller

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.

Looking Back: Democracy Egyptian Style

(MINNEAPOLIS) – Egypt is supposed to hold the nation’s first free and fair presidential election at the end of this month. It will be the second time in Egyptian history that more than one candidate will be vying for the highest office. The last time there was more than one contender, was in 2005 when […]

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Egyptian marking her ballot in the 1993 Presidential referendum. (Photo by Norbert Schiller)

(MINNEAPOLIS) - Egypt is supposed to hold the nation’s first free and fair presidential election at the end of this month. It will be the second time in Egyptian history that more than one candidate will be vying for the highest office. The last time there was more than one contender, was in 2005 when Ayman Nour, a parliamentarian, vowed to unseat

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Looking Back: The PLO’s Road To The Negotiating Table

(MINNEAPOLIS) – After two decades of negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis, it is widely believed that the two-state solution is all but dead. Israel’s new opposition leader, and former military chief, Shaul Mofaz, who recently won the leadership of the centrist Kadima Party, told Israeli Radio, “The threat of us losing the Jewish majority and Israel […]

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Oum Jihad, the widow of PLO second in command, Khalil al Wazir "Abu Jihad," cries as she is applauded by PLO Chairman, Yasser Arafat, on the first anniversary of her husband's assassination at a gathering in Tunis, Tunisia. (Photo Norbert Schiller)

(MINNEAPOLIS) - After two decades of negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis, it is widely believed that the two-state solution is all but dead. Israel’s new opposition leader, and former military chief, Shaul Mofaz, who recently won the leadership of the centrist Kadima Party, told Israeli Radio, "The threat of us losing the Jewish

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Remembering The Last Jews Of Egypt

(MINNEAPOLIS) – I met Carmen Weinstein, the current President of Cairo’s Jewish community, in the mid-1990s through a very good friend, Egyptian historian Samir Rafaat, who was helping her set up an online newsletter to keep the Egyptian Jewish diaspora informed of the latest news from the tiny Jewish community living in Cairo. Samir asked me […]

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The last of Egypt's once thriving Jewish Community celebrating Purim at Shaar Hashamayim Synagogue, in the center of Cairo, Egypt in October 1997. (Photo by Norbert Schiller)

(MINNEAPOLIS) - I met Carmen Weinstein, the current President of Cairo’s Jewish community, in the mid-1990s through a very good friend, Egyptian historian Samir Rafaat, who was helping her set up an online newsletter to keep the Egyptian Jewish diaspora informed of the latest news from the tiny Jewish community living in Cairo. Samir asked me to

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