Karim Farah's guest appearances

Karim Farah

The Green Building Matters Podcast with Charlie Cichetti

Khatt Chronicles: Stories on Design from the Arab World

John Harrison

Alan Scott

Jason McLennan

Jorge Lopez

Bill Spohn

Nate Adams

Rick Carter

John Boecker

Prasad Vaidya

Susan Kaplan

Tim Trefzer

Shan Arora

Michael Bean

Breana Wheeler

Emre Ilicali

OwlTail

Huda Smitshuijzen

Huda AbiFarès interviews Karim Farah about his graphic design and Arabic lettering work. The interview explores the potential of music in Karim’s development of his unique visual language in which he questions the aesthetics of the Kufi style, abstracting it to extract a specific meaning out of compositions, while pushing the legibility of the letters as far they can go before losing recognizabilty, and challenging the reader to ‘read’ them as form and not as linguistic signs. ***** About Khatt Chronicles ***** Khatt Chronicles podcast features remarkable designers, illustrators, and researchers from the Arab World. We host engaging conversations about their practice, vision, and aspirations. In line with the rest of the Khatt foundation projects, focuses on new developments with Arab typography and design. By Arab, we mean people working with the Arabic language, script, and audience, who are not necessarily Arabs. These initiatives are dedicated to the younger generation as an alternative medium. It also focuses on the younger generations of designers to fulfill three primary objectives: 1. Promote designers in the Arab World to the region and the rest of the world.2. Continue the mission of Khatt foundation as a network between designers to support fostering and exploring new ideas.3. Present these podcasts for inspiration and educational reasons. The podcast is an ongoing platform covering design initiatives and developments around the world. Our aim is to identify and highlight designers from the Arab World that have made meaningful contributions in their fields or have demonstrated excellence in design. Through storytelling, the Khatt Chronicles podcast will get you to know the designers on a personal level, and get to learn about how they think, and what makes them tick. Khatt Chronicles podcast is in collaboration with afikra. Follow Instagram: @khatt_chronicles Twitter: @khttnet YouTube: Khatt Chronicles - YouTube Khatt.net_Khatt Chronicles: https://www.khtt.net/en/page/28678/khatt-design-chronicles ***** About afikra ***** afikra is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. We aim to collectively reframe the dominant narrative of the region by exploring the histories and cultures of the region- past, present, and future - through conversations driven by curiosity. Read more about us on afikra.com

Huda AbiFarès interviews Karim Farah about his graphic design and Arabic lettering work. The interview explores the potential of music in Karim’s development of his unique visual language in which he questions the aesthetics of the Kufi style, abstracting it to extract a specific meaning out of compositions, while pushing the legibility of the letters as far they can go before losing recognizabilty, and challenging the reader to ‘read’ them as form and not as linguistic signs. ***** About Khatt Chronicles ***** Khatt Chronicles podcast features remarkable designers, illustrators, and researchers from the Arab World. We host engaging conversations about their practice, vision, and aspirations. In line with the rest of the Khatt foundation projects, focuses on new developments with Arab typography and design. By Arab, we mean people working with the Arabic language, script, and audience, who are not necessarily Arabs. These initiatives are dedicated to the younger generation as an alternative medium. It also focuses on the younger generations of designers to fulfill three primary objectives: 1. Promote designers in the Arab World to the region and the rest of the world. 2. Continue the mission of Khatt foundation as a network between designers to support fostering and exploring new ideas. 3. Present these podcasts for inspiration and educational reasons. The podcast is an ongoing platform covering design initiatives and developments around the world. Our aim is to identify and highlight designers from the Arab World that have made meaningful contributions in their fields or have demonstrated excellence in design. Through storytelling, the Khatt Chronicles podcast will get you to know the designers on a personal level, and get to learn about how they think, and what makes them tick. Khatt Chronicles podcast is in collaboration with afikra. Follow Instagram: @khatt_chronicles Twitter: @khttnet YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXoMIyj1Mtcrc31FO_o5RIQ/about" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Khatt Chronicles - YouTube</a> Khatt.net_Khatt Chronicles: <a href="https://www.khtt.net/en/page/28678/khatt-design-chronicles" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.khtt.net/en/page/28678/khatt-design-chronicles</a> ***** About afikra ***** afikra is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. We aim to collectively reframe the dominant narrative of the region by exploring the histories and cultures of the region- past, present, and future - through conversations driven by curiosity. Read more about us on <a href="afikra.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">afikra.com</a>

Karim Farah in conversation with Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès

LEED Fellow, experienced Sustainability Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the design industry. Skilled in Sustainability, Sustainable Architecture, Environmental Awareness, Sustainable Design, and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). Strong community and social services professional with a Bachelor’s of Urban Planning focused in the Faculty of Engineering - Ain Shams University. Collège de la Sainte Famille.   Show Highlights  The DAR group’s conglomerate of many companies to promote an international experience. Being the first, LEED AP in Asia. Difficulties and techniques to build a green building in Egypt. The need for various rating systems applied on projects in Egypt (Qatar, QSAS, GSAS and EDGE). EDGE provides Egypt with something that is easier and simpler to apply to complex builds. Avoid pricing LEED out of the projects with poor consulting advice Karim shares difficulties working in a large firm with his unique career experience. Changing the level of awareness of green and healthy building in Egypt     “If you want to be good at something, really know it! Don't pretend that you know about it, but get to know it so that when you are tested, you can show your methods. Don't pretend, don't move to trends because the trends change. Follow your passion. Really follow your passion and get a lot of knowledge about it - more than anybody else, and become the person to go to. Then you will not be afraid to give your knowledge to other people because you will be moving forward.” -Karim Farah      Karim Farah’s Show Resource and Information             Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES           GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to  to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on .  We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the !   Copyright © 2021 GBES

Egypt's LEED Fellow & Edge Auditor Karim Farah