Aura Anahita is a curator and concert producer based in Marseille. She founded Mahalla, a production company and platform for discovering the emerging music scenes of South-West Asia and North Africa. With Mahalla, she spotlights the musical creation from the Maghreb to India, and aims for better representation of artists from these regions and from the diasporas. She is also co-founder of the Total Totem label. Through her work, Aura Anahita seeks to shift the way we look at non-European cultures.