Qatar II

Card from Doha, the capital city of Qatar. On the left, the cucumber lookalike Doha Tower, designed by my least-favourite "starchitect" Jean Nouvel and completed in 2012. In the centre, the Zigzag Towers, a residential development. On the left, the Aspire Tower, which, at 36 floors, is currently the tallest building in Qatar.

Many thanks and shukran to Salah for sending it.

Stamp on the left is from a 2009 set of 13 on the birds of Qatar. It features the lesser grey shrike, Lanius minor, a common bird in South and Central Europe and western Asia that migrates to southern Africa in the early autumn. Stamp on the right is from a 1998 set of 20 about insects; featured here is the epaulet skimmer, Orthetrum chrysostigma, a common dragonfly found in Africa.

Qatar

An aerial view of Qatar, presumably of the capital Doha, but there is no information on the back of the card to elucidate the situation.

I had a layover at Doha Airport a few months ago and was utterly despondent to find no postcards for sale there whatsoever. A pretty lacklustre airport to be sure! :-)

Thanks to Maff for agreeing to swap.

A stamp from a series of past World Cup posters, here Mexico 1970, issued to commemorate the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea and Japan. Confusingly, looks rather more like a Mexico stamp than a Qatar one, if you ask me.