Another Big Day

by Mark Mordue | Apr 23, 2022

Another big day – and an even bigger night to come – at Addi Road in Marrickville with the premiere at 6pm, Friday 22 April, of the documentary ’DIE. OR DIE TRYING. ESCAPING THE TALIBAN’. We expect a crowd of around 300 people to view our one-hour feature....

Die. Or Die Trying. Escaping the Taliban

by Mark Mordue | Apr 13, 2022

PREMIERE SCREENINGWhen: Friday, 22 April 22 at 6pm Where: Gumbramorra Hall, Addison Road Community Centre, 142 Addison Road, Marrickville RSVP: info@addiroad.org.au Entry to screening is free. You are invited to attend the premiere screening...

Farhat and Her Love of School

by Mark Mordue | Mar 25, 2022

Farhat Kohistani is making her protest. For the almost one million school-age girls shut out of the education system by the Taliban. For the almost 15 million women trapped beneath their oppressive rule in her homeland. “The Taliban have closed the door for...

A meeting with Fury and Sorrow

by Mark Mordue | Nov 19, 2021

I meet Fury and Sorrow in the Inner West of Sydney. They have fled Afghanistan by different paths and means. Fury has been here six days; Sorrow six weeks. Old friends come together again. I talk to Sorrow for a long time in a street-food café inside the grounds of...

From Kabul to Sydney, one Afghan woman tells her story

by Mark Mordue | Oct 28, 2021

(left to right): Fran Kelly (ABC Radio National), Rosanna Barbero (Addi Road CEO), Yiana Roumeliotis (Addi Road), Marwa MoEen, Tamkin Hakim (Community Migrant Resource Centre), Linda LoPresti (RN Producer). Photo by Mark Mordue. SCREEN shot: Marwa MoEen, ABC Radio...