Dara Tûyê – درخت توت – The Mulberry Tree. Feminist Voices on War and Gardens

The association Flamingo is a grassroots movement based in Berlin – a community-driven initiative that emerges from the bottom up and is not steered by institutions. In addition to providing legal advice on asylum and residency for refugee women⁺, the organisation offers its infrastructure to other activists and networks. In 2019, the community garden “Hevrîn Xelef” was established: a place for collective gardening, remembrance, and self-organisation, located on the repurposed grounds of the New Cemetery St. Jacobi.

Anuscheh Amir-Khalili is an activist, anthropologist and curator of the Open Space. She was born in Iran to a German mother and an Iranian father. In 2015, she founded the organisation Flamingo, a network for refugee women⁺ and children. Since 2019, Flamingo has run the transcultural community garden “Hevrîn Xelef” in Berlin-Neukölln. For her work, she received the Citizen Award from the organisation Global Citizen in 2022. Since that same year, she has been a research associate at anstiftung and a point of contact for post-migrant communities, particularly in the field of community gardening.

Ela Pour was born in Tehran in 1975. She spent her early years in England before returning to Iran. In 1989, war brought her to Germany, where she soon continued to pursue her passion for art and music, making them central forms of expression in her life. She studied costume and stage design at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art, graduating with a diploma. Her work as an artist and tattooist moves between memory and the present. Personal experiences are distilled into poetic images that reveal both vulnerability and resilience.

Philip Leutert ( born 1982) studied photography at the Ostkreuzschule in Berlin and the ZHdK in Zürich. He has worked as a photographer since 2013. His focus lies in portraits and abstract artistic photography.

Dr. Yalda Yazdani is an Iranian ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, and curator based in Berlin. She received her PhD in Musicology from the University of Siegen in 2025. From 2017 to 2025, she curated music festivals and cultural projects such as Female Voice of Iran, Female Voice of Afghanistan, Female Voice of Kurdistan, Qashqai Female Voices, Ukrainian Female Voices, and Female Voices United. Her primary work centers on highlighting female voices internationally, especially those from the Middle East.

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