Minaret Somg
(2001/2)

On the large flat roof of an apartment building in downtown Cairo, we witness a strange occurrence: at lunchtime, a minaret slowly rises telescopically from a seemingly abandoned cardboard box to the sound of traffic in the Arab megacity. After a few meters, a small muezzin balcony opens up, as is typical for local minarets. Once the minaret has reached its full height (6 m), the top of the minaret slowly descends again and pulls the entire tower down with it until it disappears completely into its own base. All that remains of the minaret is the cardboard box on the roof, which we almost overlooked at the beginning and which we now know contains a minaret that can be pulled out.