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.
Syria, Paradise Lost: Part I
Remembering visits to Syria’s lesser-known sites from antiquity, now threatened by conflict.
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
