Syrian girls competing for Miss Fashion Model, in Damascus, strut their stuff on the catwalk in 2006. (Photo Norbert Schiller)

Syrian Beauty Contest Reveals The Heart Of Its Failed Economic Reforms

Bashar’s capitalist-style reforms were not so much about lifting the poor out of poverty, as they were about seeing whom from the middle class could become wealthy.

by Norbert Schiller

Syria, Paradise Lost: Part I

Remembering visits to Syria’s lesser-known sites from antiquity, now threatened by conflict.

Syria, Paradise Lost: Part I

This is part of a series of "diaries" by veteran photojournalist Norbert Schiller, reflecting on his world travels in decades past:

Up until the beginning of the civil war, in the spring of 2011, I traveled to Syria regularly for nearly two decades.

Unlike most journalists, who had a

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Norbert Schiller

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.

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