Mary Zournazi is an Australian author, philosopher and filmmaker. She is the author of several books, including Hope: New Philosophies for Change (2003), Keywords to War (2008) and Inventing Peace (Bloomsbury, 2013) with the German filmmaker Wim Wenders. She wrote, directed and filmed the documentary films Dogs of Democracy (2017) and Rembetika Blues (2020). She is currently Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia.