Friday, August 1 · 7 - 9pm EDT - Vienna Community Center, 120 Cherry Street Southeast Vienna, VA
Film Screening & Panel Discussion: “It Is All About Palestine: A Documentary”
Palestinian American undergraduate students who represent a new generation of principled voices rising against genocide and occupation
By American Palestinian Women’s Association
Panlists:
Dina AbouZeid is a documentary filmmaker whose journey into the field began after a decade in television and news media. Seeking to go beyond headlines and into the heart of human experience, she founded Media Vision Co. in Egypt with a mission to capture memories, uncover untold stories, and offer a clearer vision of the present. With over 25 years of experience, Dina has produced impactful content for major broadcasters including Al Jazeera, Al Hurra, Alghad, and Al Araby. Her documentaries, which often explore themes of identity, social justice, and global awareness, combine investigative depth with emotional resonance. Now based in the United States, Dina continues to amplify marginalized voices through film. Her latest work, It Is All About Palestine, documents the courage of student activists confronting repression and the moral clarity of a generation refusing silence. She believes that honest, compassionate storytelling can make film a tool of resistance and a beacon of truth and transformation.
Sereen Haddad is a Palestinian American and recent graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University who represents a new generation of principled voices rising against genocide, occupation, and the politics of fear. As an organizer with Students for Justice in Palestine at VCU, she has challenged institutional repression and spoken out boldly in the face of censorship and administrative retaliation. Despite VCU’s claims to celebrate diversity and critical thinking, Sereen has been penalized for using her voice to call out genocide and empire—refusing to trade her conscience for comfort or a diploma. Her activism is not just political—it is deeply personal. In the past year and a half alone, she has lost over 200 family members in Gaza to the ongoing assault on the Palestinian people. She is the daughter of Dr. Tariq Haddad, a respected Palestinian American physician who made national headlines in 2023 by refusing to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in protest of American support for Israel’s war on Gaza. Sereen’s voice, like her father’s, carries clarity, defiance, and a refusal to be silent in the face of injustice.Barbara Wien has worked since 1981 to end human rights abuses, violence, war, and ecological destruction. As Co-Director of Peace Brigades International, she protected civilians from death squads in conflict zones. Later, as Academic Director of the World Policy Institute, she helped establish over 280 peace and conflict resolution programs at universities around the world. A public scholar and practitioner, Barbara has deep expertise in gender violence, peacebuilding, nonviolent social movements, and the political economy of war. She has led eight nonprofits, taught at six universities, and authored or edited 27 publications. Recognized for her “moral courage,” she has received awards including the 2022 Visionary Leadership Award and the 2018 Peace Educator of the Year. Her commentary and interviews have appeared on NPR, BBC, NBC, The Washington Post, and networks in over 10 countries. Her commitment to peace and justice continues to shape the next generation of changemakers.
Barbara Wien has worked since 1981 to end human rights abuses, violence, war, and ecological destruction. As Co-Director of Peace Brigades International, she protected civilians from death squads in conflict zones. Later, as Academic Director of the World Policy Institute, she helped establish over 280 peace and conflict resolution programs at universities around the world. A public scholar and practitioner, Barbara has deep expertise in gender violence, peacebuilding, nonviolent social movements, and the political economy of war. She has led eight nonprofits, taught at six universities, and authored or edited 27 publications. Recognized for her “moral courage,” she has received awards including the 2022 Visionary Leadership Award and the 2018 Peace Educator of the Year. Her commentary and interviews have appeared on NPR, BBC, NBC, The Washington Post, and networks in over 10 countries. Her commitment to peace and justice continues to shape the next generation of changemakers.Barbara Wien has worked since 1981 to end human rights abuses, violence, war, and ecological destruction. As Co-Director of Peace Brigades International, she protected civilians from death squads in conflict zones. Later, as Academic Director of the World Policy Institute, she helped establish over 280 peace and conflict resolution programs at universities around the world. A public scholar and practitioner, Barbara has deep expertise in gender violence, peacebuilding, nonviolent social movements, and the political economy of war. She has led eight nonprofits, taught at six universities, and authored or edited 27 publications. Recognized for her “moral courage,” she has received awards including the 2022 Visionary Leadership Award and the 2018 Peace Educator of the Year. Her commentary and interviews have appeared on NPR, BBC, NBC, The Washington Post, and networks in over 10 countries. Her commitment to peace and justice continues to shape the next generation of changemakers.
Marione Ingaram is a human rights activist and writer who experienced the Holocaust, Europe’s deadliest bombing, and the greatest man-made firestorm the world has ever seen. German Holocaust historians have identified her as the last living survivor of all three of those horrors. During the American Civil Rights Movement, she also survived the murderous wrath of Mississippi's Ku Klux Klan.Born in Hamburg Germany to a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father, Marione in 1941 witnessed the deportation of many family members and thousands of other Hamburg Jews to a killing site in Russia. She and her mother later escaped such deportation only because they were presumed to be among the tens of thousands of civilians killed when Allied bombing created the world’s greatest manmade firestorm. For the remainder of the war, they lived in hiding on the outskirts of the city. During that period, her father was imprisoned for helping Belgian Jews to evade internment.After the war, Marione and her two younger sisters attended a Zionist school which nurtured surviving Jewish children and taught them Hebrew before shipping all but a handful to Palestine. When that school closed after the founding of Israel, Marione remained in Hamburg with her family and became the only Jewish student in a German High School in which the faculty and students still held Nazi views.After coming to America in 1952, Marione protested racism, first in New York and later in Washington DC, where as a member of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) she fought discrimination in housing, employment, education, policing, and other aspects of life there. She was a volunteer worker for the 1963 March on Washington and organized overnight protests to support the Mississippi Freedom Party delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City. Afterwards, at the request of civil rights heroine Fannie Lou Hamer, she went to Mississippi as a staff worker for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to register black voters and direct a Freedom School. The murderers of three rights workers were still at large when the Ku Klux Klan burned a cross in front of her school and threatened to kill her.Throughout the turbulent sixties and seventies and into the 21st century Marione continued to protest racism, war, sexism, Apartheid, and police violence. She and her husband protested encroaching fascism every day at the White House during the first 100 days of Trump’s residency.
Noa Wynn is a Jewish American activist and recent graduate of American University, where she studied international studies with a focus on peace, global security, and conflict resolution. Over the past year, she has organized in Washington, DC, in solidarity with Palestinians and against repression.Raised in Pittsburgh and active in Jewish community spaces, Noa grew up in environments where support for Israel was largely unexamined. Her college experience, especially after October 7, reshaped her understanding of Israeli occupation and apartheid.Her connection to this struggle is deeply personal. Her community was targeted in the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting—the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. She sees shared ideological roots between white supremacy and Zionism, both of which rely on racial and religious hierarchy. She believes Israel does not make Jews safer and fuels global antsemitism.Noa organizes with The Vigil for Palestine, IfNotNow, and Jewish Voice for Peace, and calls for an end to the genocide in Gaza.