Nouf Sufyani aka Cosmicat is Saudi Arabia’s first female DJ. Born in the Nineties and proudly having lived her entire life in Saudi, Sufyani recalls growing up with pop music before shifting towards R&B and hiphop. “As my understanding and appreciation of music developed and changed, so did my tastes,” she recalls. “I concluded that I really love all music and all sounds and I feel that the best representative of the union of all sounds, instruments, and flavors is electronic dance music and all its sub-genres,” she says. She specifically enjoys melodic house and melodic techno, which she creates and plays. Sufyani first began DJing after graduating from dental school. “I had started working; I bought a DJ mixer online just for fun during my shift in the clinic,” she recalls. Her hobby grew as she experimented and interacted with her machine, researched for help online, studied other DJs and sought out tutorials. Come 2018 and she scored her first professional gig. “There’s no such thing as a ‘challenge,'” says Sufyani. “They are mostly little worries that live inside your head until you find a way to overcome them. For me, it was going into a very new field in my country and considering what to do regarding my job as a dentist and coming off as a bit of a social shock–or not being accepted,” she states.” She adds that setting foot in a male-dominated industry required that she do even more work than her counterparts in order to stand out as a professional DJ.