Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Interview with Russian Newspaper at B20 Meeting in St Petersburg


I had an interview with “Russian Newspaper”, the authorized Government newspaper, one of the leading business newspapers in Russia, about innovation as global trend at B20 in St Petersburg.

http://www.rg.ru/2013/06/25/prizok.html
 

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

2023 Forum İstanbul

Küreselleşme & amp; Yeni Dengeler temalı 2023 Forum İstanbul Konferansları'nda Büyümenin ve Uluslararası Rekabetin Anahtarı adlı panelde, panelist olarak yer aldım.

Monday, May 6, 2013

Güneri Civaoğlu Ile Sohbet



Güneri Civaoğlu ile keyifli bir yemek sohbeti gerçekleştirdik.
Online haberi buradan da okuyabilirsiniz.









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.