Tag Archive: Egypt and the Middle East Past and Present

EGYPT/Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s Last Pharaoh. Luxor Massacre (Part 6)

2 August 2012

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Twenty nine world leaders gather at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheikh to attend the Summit of the Peacemakers, March 1996. Ph. Norbert Schiller

As Egypt’s former President, Hosni Mubarak, languishes on a hospital bed, who would have ever believed, that the once all-powerful Pharaoh, who ruled for nearly 30 years, would wind up a broken man. Instead of being remembered as a hero, Mubarak last image will be him laying on a hospital gurney, inside the courtroom cage, sporting expensive sunglasses with his two sons, Alaa and Gamal, trying to shield their father from the television cameras.

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A night at the Museum with Coronel Muammar Gaddafi

12 September 2011

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Muammar Gaddafi at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. March 1999. Ph. Norbert Schiller

My last and most memorable image of Muammar Gaddafi is the night we spent in Cairo, at the Egyptian Museum!

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EGYPT/ Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s Last Pharaoh (part 2)

6 June 2011

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A few weeks into Cairo’s Tahrir Square protests, President Obama, under pressure, decided to send an envoy to Egypt to talk Hosni Mubarak into stepping down gracefully and handing over power to a transitional government. The person he chose for this mission was Frank Wisner, a businessman and former seasoned diplomat, who was ambassador to Egypt from the mid- 1980s until the end of the 1990/91 Gulf War. Wisner, who has served during a critical time for American interests in the Middle East, became quite chummy with Mubarak during his posting and, according to rumor, often played squash with the President.

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