Najiba Noori was born in 1995 in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. She began working for media organisations as a volunteer when she was just 15. She has participated in several workshops for photography and filmmaking in Kabul. She has reported for various organizations and agencies, including the AFP, Huffington Post, MSF, FMIC, NRC and UN Women in Afghanistan. She participated in the Close-Up program 2020-2021 and at the IDFA Academy in 2022. She joined AFP as a video journalist in 2019. In 2021, she was obliged to leave her country when the Taliban took power in Afghanistan, and now lives in France. WRITING HAWA is her first documentary.
