60 Year Anniversary: Farouk And Narriman, Egypt’s Last Royal Romance

Farouk and Narriman attending some sort of costume party. (Original photo courtesy the Norbert Schiller Collection/MintPress) This past month marks the 60-year anniversary of the July 23 revolution in Egypt that ended the 140-year rule of the Mohammed Ali Dynasty. Coincidentally, the anniversary comes at the same time Egypt ushers in a new era. After […]

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The official wedding photo of Farouk and Narriman. (Orignal photo courtesy the Nortbert Schiller Collection/MinPress)

This past month marks the 60-year anniversary of the July 23 revolution in Egypt that ended the 140-year rule of the Mohammed Ali Dynasty. Coincidentally, the anniversary comes at the same time Egypt ushers in a new era. After toppling Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year monopoly of power, the Egyptians have elected Mohammed Morsi, the first democratically

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Quaker Oats Nation: A South African View Of America

A family packed on to a motorcycle is an everyday occurrence in Cairo, Egypt. A scene like this would never be witnessed in a place like the United States. (Ph. Norbert Schiller) While I was living in Dubai in the mid-1980s, a South African friend gave me a CD he thought I might like. It […]

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A family packed on to a motorcycle is an everyday occurrence in Cairo, Egypt. A scene like this would never be witnessed in a place like the United States. (Ph. Norbert Schiller)

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

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The Azzurri’s Spell Over Lebanon

Lebanese look at the remains of a bridge that was distroyed by the Israeli airforce during the Hezbollah Israeli war in summer 2006. (Photo Norbert Schiller/MintPress) 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 […]

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Lebanese look at the remains of a bridge that was distroyed by the Israeli airforce during the Hezbollah Israeli war in summer 2006. (Photo Norbert Schiller/MintPress)

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

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Smelling The Breezes 50 Years On

Hiking along the Lebanon Mountain Trail in the Beqaa Valley below a snow-capped Mt. Hermon rising up in the distance. (Photo Norbert Schiller / MintPress) (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 […]

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Hiking along the Lebanon Mountain Trail in the Beqaa Valley below a snow-capped Mt. Hermon rising up in the distance. (Photo Norbert Schiller)

(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

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Killing the messenger, how politics target war correspondents

Photo taken by Norbert Schiller during his time covering the Iraq war. (MINNEAPOLIS) – There is an esprit de corps that develops among journalists who are on a story together, and this camaraderie becomes an intrinsic part of the job. The more dangerous the story, the tighter the bond becomes. War correspondents are very well aware […]

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In this 1944 photo, Cyril 'Cy' O'Brien, a former Marine combat correspondent, uses a typewriter on Guam. (Photo by Pacific War Museum)

(MINNEAPOLIS) - There is an esprit de corps that develops among journalists who are on a story together, and this camaraderie becomes an intrinsic part of the job. The more dangerous the story, the tighter the bond becomes. War correspondents are very well aware of the risks they face and they know that at any moment they could become the next

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Opinion: Mourning the Messenger – A Look into the Life of a War Correspondent

Screenshot from documentary film: Shooting Robert King, about war photographer Robert King. (MINNEAPOLIS) — Over the past weeks, three foreign journalists have lost their lives covering the crisis in Syria. For me personally, the death of New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid hit the hardest because we had shared a friendship for nearly 20 years. […]

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Screenshot from documentary film: Shooting Robert King, about war photographer Robert King.

(MINNEAPOLIS) — Over the past weeks, three foreign journalists have lost their lives covering the crisis in Syria. For me personally, the death of New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid hit the hardest because we had shared a friendship for nearly 20 years. The two other fatalities were also extremely disturbing. Marie Colvin was the quintessential

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