Anuscheh Amir-Khalili | Between magic and practice

Lecture including visual material and discussion with Anuscheh Amir-Khalili from the anstiftung in Munich

Lecture and discussion with visual material about the impulse and the possibilities of building places where strength, resistance and hope can grow. Where ideas emerge alongside grief and solidarity, such as the establishment of open interactive herbal pharmacies in transcultural community gardens.

With the medicinal herb garden „Hevrîn Xelef „*, Flamingo e.v. – Netwerk für geflüchtete Frauen, has established a peaceful and sustainable project. The garden has developed into a place where self-empowerment, self-organisation and self-sufficiency take place for and by women*. With the garden, the founders commemorate the „friend and inspiring politician Hevrîn Xelef, who was murdered in Rojava on 12.10.19 during the war“.

Anuscheh Amir-Khalili studied social and cultural anthropology and Islamic studies at the FU Berlin. She previously worked in film and media education in Bremen, Hanover, Valencia and Berlin. After a research stay on Lesbos, she founded the association Flamingo e.V. – Network for Refugee Women* and Children in 2015 and set up the medicinal herb garden Hevrin Xelef and Band of Sisters . In 2022 she received the Global Citizen Prize.

Anuscheh Amir-Khalili has been a research associate at anstiftung since 2022 and is the contact person for post-migrant communities, especially in the field of community gardens. She works on activist, feminist and gender-democratic aspects in the areas of flight, migration and diversity.

Photo: Maria Sturm

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