Miléna Kartowski-Aïach is a French-Israeli, Algerian-Polish Jew born in Paris and living in Jerusalem. She is a Shaliach Tzibbur, multidisciplinary artist and an anthropologist. A Ph.D. candidate at Concordia University in Montreal, she is researching the transformative power of prayer and the ecology of creation. As a singer, she has been investigating and performing Jewish-Berber songs from the Moroccan Atlas Mountains, piyyutim from Algeria and saving from loss the Algiers tradition of Torah cantillation. As founder and artistic director of international theater company Les Haïm, she has been creating a dozen anthropological theater projects, working mostly with mute and excluded communities. One of the works, the LEROS trilogy, was led with Yezidi refugees from Iraq who survived the genocide of Sinjar in 2014.
