Monday, April 29, 2013

‘Al ahwal’ in Cairo

by Farghali
To empathize with a city, best way is to get to know a diversified range of local people. I got to see a different glimpse of Cairo again, the artistic side of the city in my visit this week. Last time I did this, it was few months after revolution and streets of Cairo was not a safe place to walk around. So we confined ourselves with a co-worker who played my guide to the busy and small streets of Zamalek; and sat and had several conversations with art gallery owners. They were apprehensive two years ago; joyful of the movement yet again very concerned on potential self censorship, impact on artists freedom, and of course loss of business. One lady speculated on Turkey versus new Egypt and eventual fate of women; another gallery owner talked about his top clientele being in jail. Yet again we looked through fantastic paintings and sculptures awaiting to be purchased in small rooms piled.

This is where I met Farghali’s and several other contemporary Egyptian artists’ paintings. What provoked me to take the art journey at the first place was the fascinating Khaled Sourour exhibit at the Nile City Fairmont, ‘al ahwal’—(I wonder if it would mean state of the world as we would call it in Turkish?) which struck me as fiercely local yet with a cartoonish vividness screaming.

Friday, April 5, 2013

Speaking at ‘the Strategy & Hiring’ Panel of Stanton Chase International

Matching Strategy with Board & C-Suite Hiring 


I spoke in the “Strategy & Hiring: Matching Strategy with Board and C Suite Hiring” Panel Session of the International Partners Meeting of Stanton Chase International. Other speakers were Jeff Johnson, the President of Boeing Middle East; Tayfun Bayazit, the Chairman of Marsh McLennan; and Çağrı Alkaya, Managing Partner, Stanton Chase Turkey. I talked about different executive profiles that are required for global and corporate companies going through different phases and hints on how to recruit and train professionals within the frame of long term vision and strategy.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Cusco Treni Bulutların Üstüne Gider



Hürriyet Seyahat'ten Serhan Yedig ile Lima gezimin detaylarını paylaştım. Yazının tamamına buradan ulaşabilirsiniz.