Gallup SAL is pleased to announce its partnership with the French Center in Lebanon, a subsidiary of the French Center.
This year, it presented the accompaniment of twenty craftsmen with creative skills who wish to improve and develop their profession within the project of residencies for artists.

“Nafs” is an initiative of the French Center in Lebanon, the French Center and the Association of Cultural Centers for Encounters, and is part of the ongoing emergency aid to Lebanon announced by President Emmanuel Macron in September 2020.
This program aims to enable 100 Lebanese artists who have been severely affected in the practice of their profession to continue their creative activity within the framework of cultural exchange with France. This program supports them by receiving them in France within artistic residencies aimed at urging them to develop a research and design project in various sectors of contemporary creativity.
For Gallup SAL (Hermes – Lebanon), this contribution is one of its core values.
Based on the idea of ​​finding sustainable solutions to provide prospects for a generation of Lebanese facing an unprecedented economic crisis, Gallup s.a.l., the exclusive franchisor of “Hermes” in Lebanon, participates in the ambition of the “Nafs” program, as its name indicates in the Arabic language “Breathe”. Inhale and exhale.”
Thus, Gallup S.A.L decided to make a contribution in line with the values ​​and culture of “Hermes” that it has embodied and promoted in Lebanon since 2010, and therefore it will be presented to the French Center in Lebanon starting this year, and within the framework of “Nafs”, to take upon itself 20 candidates working Exclusively in the field of handicrafts for a month’s stay in France.
After Lebanon was previously famous for its goldsmiths, leather, carpentry, glasswork, weaving, silk, embroidery, and other crafts and skills, today it is losing many of these professions. Through its long-term contribution and promotion to this sector, Gallup SAL aims to re-transfer talents after their discontinuity. After the craftsmen gain experience, exchange and training during their stay in France, upon their return they will be able to teach new apprentices and thus rebuild a chain of professionalism that will be a source of employment and production.
Nafs defines the Lebanese craftsman as follows:
– To have been residing in Lebanon for at least five years and to practice the profession on Lebanese territory.
He must have a sufficient level of French or English to make the most of his stay.
To justify a previous act.
– To submit proof of professional experience in the concerned craft sector.
To be free from any professional activity during the month of residence.
– Not to be selected to participate in any other residency program affiliated with the French Center, the Association of Cultural Centers for Encounters, or the French Center in Lebanon.
There is no set age limit.
Gallup SAL is the exclusive franchisor of Hermes in Lebanon since 2010. Its headquarters are in downtown Beirut in Bab Idriss Square. Gallup sal operates a store of more than 300 square meters that was completely renovated in September 2018 and rebuilt again after the tragic explosion on August 4, 2020. In its civil responsibility as a company, Gallup sal signed several operations including a re-order Issuance of the Hermès scarf “Sous le Cèdre” on 600 copies of silk, and 360 shawls of silk and cashmere, to present part of its proceeds to the AFDC (Association for the Development and Protection of Forests) for the reforestation of cedars in the Chouf and Tannourine reserves. In 2018, Gallup sal brought the ball back with a special edition Hermès woven silk tie, embroidered with bright green cedar with a beige stem.As with the Under the Cedar scarf, a portion of the tie sales proceeds to complete a forest conservation Shouf and Tannourine and planted 750 new bushes in each.
Since 1837, “Hermes” has remained true to its craftsmanship model and its humanistic values. The freedom to create, the constant search for the finest materials, the transfer of skill, excellence and the aesthetics of the job make Hermes unique. A house that designs products to last. An independent family home, Hermes is keen to confine most of its production to France within its 51 factories and production sites. It is expanding its network of more than 300 stores in 45 countries. The group employs approximately 17,000 people worldwide, of whom about 10,600 are in France, including more than 5,600 craftsmen*. Hermes has been run since 2013 by Axel Dumas and is a member of the sixth generation. Founded in 2008, the Hermes Foundation supports projects in the areas of artistic creativity, training, skill transfer, biodiversity and environmental conservation.