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Half Truth

by Nadia Mahjouri

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Narrator Violette Ayad

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Language English

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Khadija is packing up her home of fifty years. In her box of special belongings are the last reminders she has of her son Ahmed, missing for more than twenty years. Her belongings take her back to her village childhood, her marriage and move to Marrakesh, and the birth of Ahmed when she was just thirteen.

In Cloudy Bay, Tasmania, Zahra is in the throes of new motherhood and desperate for answers about her own identity. She decides to take her baby to Morocco and search for the father she has never known. There she finds an extensive loving family and a culture ready to embrace her, but no father.

Zahra and Khadija's stories collide - giving Khadija the power to move on, and Zahra the courage to reshape herself into a mother and African Australian woman, ready to create a fulfilling life for her son and herself.

A moving Moroccan Australian family drama charting families, motherhood and loss, identity and belonging.

Nadia Mahjouri (Author)
NADIA MAHJOURI is a Moroccan Australian writer, counsellor, and group facilitator specialising in maternal mental health. Her professional background is in health policy, governance and academia, where her research focused on ethics and feminist philosophy.

Nadia and her husband live in Hobart/nipaluna with varying combinations of their family which includes three young adults, two school-aged children and a black labrador puppy called Russell Sprout.

She is the host of The Whole Truth: Motherhood and the Writing Life. In this podcast, Nadia interviews authors about how they manage to keep writing while living in the messy middle of family life, work and creativity.

Half Truth is her debut novel. You can find her at nadiamahjouri.com or @nadiamahjouriauthor

Violette Ayad (Reader)
Violette is a 2017 NIDA graduate with a Batchelor of Fine Arts in Acting.
Her theatre credits include Oil (Sydney Theatre Co), Son of Byblos (25a Belvoir), Oil (Black Swan Theatre Co), Nearer the Gods (Ensemble Theatre), Elektra/Orestes (Hive Collective) Where the Streets had a Name (Monkey Baa) and The Players national tour (Bell Shakespeare). Other professional work includes Mercury Poisoning (KXT Broadway), Coram Boy (KXT), Revolt She Said. Revolt. Again, as well as new Australian plays Blame Traffic and The House at Boundary Road Liverpool, all at The Old 505 Theatre. Whilst at NIDA she appeared in productions of The Show that Smells, Fraternal, The Hypochondriac, Woyzeck, Twelfth Night and Sportsplay. Screen work includes films Hero, Seeds of God, Breaking Plates and Nekrotronic as well as a role in television series Prosper (STAN). Violette received the Fringe World Emerging Artist Award in her hometown of Perth for her performance in the one-woman show My Father's World (2014). She is also a member of The Equity Diversity committee.