Oman Post, an Asyad member company, launched four interactive stamps celebrating, ‘Maidan’, one of the Sultanate’s most celebrated art forms in poetry and traditional music. The stamps pay homage to time-honoured country traditions, with each including a specific theme including ‘Dance’, ‘The Poet and the Singer’, ‘Maidan Instruments’, and ‘Maidan Genre in General’. The new collection has been launched in a joint collaboration with the Oman Centre for Traditional Music, of the Sultan Qaboos Higher Centre for Culture and Science at the Diwan of Royal Court, as well as involved Omani artists Mohammed Almamari, Sami Alsiyabi, Fahad Almamari and Salim Alsalami.
The new stamps can now be reserved by emailing Oman Post on: philatelic@omanpost.om. In 2019, Oman Post launched another set of interactive stamps celebrating the deep roots and variety of Oman’s traditional music and performance arts, which included key instruments that defines Omani music heritage including the Al Azi, Al Rawah, Barghoum, and Kasir.
Zoe & Morgan x Gemfields launch collection to celebrate Ruby Month
With rubies being the vibrant birthstone for the month of July, the environmentally aware jewellery label, Zoe & Morgan, and Gemfields, a world-leading supplier of responsibly sourced coloured gemstones, felt there could be no better time to introduce their latest collection.
This exciting new collaboration combines the pure beauty of Gemfields’ Mozambican rubies with Zoe & Morgan’s clean and contemporary designs.
The pieces that have resulted from the collaboration are characterised by simple lines, triangles and diamond shapes. The diamond symbol has long been used to represent female energy, as well as encapsulating balance and strength: it is at the heart of the design of one necklace in the collection,
which sees two diamond-shaped rubies framed with round cuts, to represent femininity as a continuous and collective whole; another necklace features smaller rubies; and an arresting ring that features a large diamond-shaped ruby as its central stone, encircled by round-cut rubies, its vivid colour and clean shape representing balance and strength.
Open-ended Toys by EcoSouk Inspire your child’s imagination and creativity
There are many different types of toys available on the market today, but all toys are not created equal. Toys set the basis for how children experience life, and the right ones can be tools for understanding rather than just trying to keep them busy. When using the right toys, a child’s development will dictate its use rather than it becoming obsolete.
This is the reason why open-ended toys are so fundamental to your child’s development; they foster play, creativity, and imagination, and can be very educational too.
These toys do not age or date and are not age specific. In a nutshell, they are toys that are powered by imagination, not batteries, thus allowing each child to play with the same toy in completely unique ways, depending on the child, the day, his/her imagination and desire. What’s more, open-ended toys will also save a little of your hardearned cash, with you only having to invest in them once rather than buying new toys on, what feels like, a weekly basis. These sustainable and timeless toys are available at www.EcoSouk.me.