Saudi DJ Cosmicat to perform at Ultra Miami with MDLBEAST Records representation deal

Saudi Arabia’s MDLBEAST Records announced on Wednesday that Jeddah born and raised DJ and record producer Cosmicat has signed a worldwide representation deal with the company.  (Supplied)
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Updated 08 March 2023
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Saudi DJ Cosmicat to perform at Ultra Miami with MDLBEAST Records representation deal

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s MDLBEAST Records announced on Wednesday that Jeddah born and raised DJ and record producer Cosmicat has signed a worldwide representation deal with the company. 

This partnership will lead to the music sensation making her US debut at Ultra Miami on March 25. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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“I am so grateful to MDLBEAST Records for this opportunity to partner and grow together. As a Saudi label with global ambitions, my music and their vision are very much aligned,” Cosmicat said in a statement. “I can’t wait to show Miami — and the world — what we are able to do.” 

Talal Albahiti, COO of MDLBEAST Records, said: “We are thrilled to have an artist as dynamic and vibrant as Cosmicat on MDLBEAST Records. Her audience continues to grow worldwide, with her recent EP ‘Ascension’ being well received by influential international DJs, at radio and on global DSPs,  and with US, UK and European festival shows planned for this year.”

Cosmicat made her first major appearance at MDLBEAST’s inaugural festival SOUNDSTORM in Saudi Arabia in 2019, performing to hundreds of thousands. She has been a staple headliner at events across the MENA region, and globally, ever since.

 


Director Kaouther Ben Hania rejects Berlin honor over Gaza

Updated 20 February 2026
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Director Kaouther Ben Hania rejects Berlin honor over Gaza

DUBAI: Kaouther Ben Hania, the Tunisian filmmaker behind “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” refused to accept an award at a Berlin ceremony this week after an Israeli general was recognized at the same event.

The director was due to receive the Most Valuable Film award at the Cinema for Peace gala, held alongside the Berlinale, but chose to leave the prize behind.

On stage, Ben Hania said the moment carried a sense of responsibility rather than celebration. She used her remarks to demand justice and accountability for Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl killed by Israeli soldiers in Gaza in 2024, along with two paramedics who were shot while trying to reach her.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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“Justice means accountability. Without accountability, there is no peace,” Ben Hania said.

“The Israeli army killed Hind Rajab; killed her family; killed the two paramedics who came to save her, with the complicity of the world’s most powerful governments and institutions,” she said.

“I refuse to let their deaths become a backdrop for a polite speech about peace. Not while the structures that enabled them remain untouched.”

Ben Hania said she would accept the honor “with joy” only when peace is treated as a legal and moral duty, grounded in accountability for genocide.