Ekram Zubaydi
TFI Support
Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund 2015 AOL Charitable Foundation Award
About
Ekram Zubaydi has from the very beginning been a vital part of WHAT WALAA WANTS, supporting several aspects of filming. She is from Tulkarm, West-Bank, where she works as a Project Coordinator for the Palestinian Center for Peace and Democracy, an NGO supported by UNWomen, the Swedish organization Kvinna til Kvinna (Woman to Woman) and Dutch Cordaid. Ekram is also a social and feminist activist on her spare time. She speaks Arabic, English and French and has studied French Literature.
What Walaa Wants
Raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank while her mother was in prison, Walaa is determined to become one of the few women on the Palestinian Security Forces - a big challenge for a girl who breaks all the rules.