Before classical, film, or techno, you spent a good amount of time in the Palestinian rap world as well.

Yes! I rapped, dude. I did dance battles. Breakdance was super hot at the time. The 2000s were the era of hip-hop, in Palestine anyway. That's when I played my first discs. Not long after, my brother came back from Jordan with two CDs. One was Tiësto, the other IIO. He told me, "You HAVE to listen to this." Immediately we organized a party, during which I only DJed those two albums. Well, I mean, I say "DJed," but back then it was more like push play/pause and fumble around with the fader. I had seen two or three guys play vinyl, but I didn't have a clue what real DJing was... And then, one thing led to another; I got into it more seriously. And people started raving together, other people started DJing and parties. Today, there are half a dozen places that host these parties in Ramallah. The city has about 15 DJs, three of them women! But you have to remember we're talking about a really small milieu. The biggest party in Palestine only brings in about 400 people tops. Nobody played techno before I started. And I'm still the only one who plays this particular type of techno.