DUBAI (AlArabiya.net)
A professional Saudi magician has declared he is willing and ready to make one of Egypt’s three pyramids disappear in front of everyone's eyes, according to a report by a Saudi newspaper.
“I’m currently looking for a sponsor for this illusion because it would cost a lot of money to implement,” Mamdouh al-Marzouqi, a 33-year-old professional Saudi illusionist, told the Arab News English daily on Friday.
Al-Marzouqi, who goes by the stage name Mumdo, says he hopes to be an internationally famous magician one day. But he told the daily that such a career was hard in the conservative Kingdom.
In Saudi Arabia, people are often arrested for performing “black magic”, fooling others into believing they have supernatural powers and then scamming them out of money.
But Mumdo says he wants people to understand the difference between a showman and a charlatan.
“People get confused between the art of illusions and ‘black magic’,” said Mumdo. “I’m just an artist who performs tricks that does not defy the laws of physics or logic.”
The Saudi man, whose first encounter with magic occurred when his uncle baffled him with a magic trick that made a coin disappear, is following in the footsteps of international illusionist David Copperfield.
Copperfield is famous for once making the Statue of Liberty appear to have vanished.
“One day I will have my own show in Las Vegas,” Mumdo told the daily. “I was a marketing manager for one of the major companies, and I resigned from my job to become a full time illusionist.” |
