Reza Adib رضا ادیب

author, journalist, photographer, filmmaker

work in progress

  • SINGING IN SUFFOCATION

    FILM | directing & editing

    2021 - …

    Documentary film about an Afghan journalist who, amid the turmoil of the return of the Taliban, tries to report on female resistance against gender apartheid.

  • MUSEUM OF HUMAN-HUNTING: Munich

    AUDIO EXHIBITION | writing, voice & dramaturgy

    2025 | Münchner Kammerspiele

    The Museum of Human-Hunting is an ever-evolving imaginary institution, unraveling present-day practices of humans hunting other humans within the context of the EU’s border policies. For its next incarnation, the museum’s existing collection will enter into dialogue with new material co-created in Munich.

  • THE VOICE OF FINGERS

    PLAYSCRIPT | writing

    2025 | De Nieuwe Toneelbibliotheek (NL)

    Publication of both the Dutch and English-language version of The Voice of Fingers, co-authored with Thomas Bellinck.

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past projects

  • THE VOICE OF FINGERS

    THEATRE PLAY | writing & dramaturgy

    2023 | ARSENAAL/LAZARUS, ROBIN, Theater Antigone (BE), Münchner Kammerspiele & Spielart (DE)

    A theatre piece, co-authored with Thomas Bellinck, excavating the colonial history and unsettling present of fingerprinting as a technology for controlling human movement.

  • FORGOTTEN MORIA

    PHOTO EXHIBITION | photographer

    2023 | Refugee Film Festival & Tampere University (FI)

    An exhibition showcasing Reza Adib's photographs from the infamous refugee camp, known to residents as ‘the Hell of Moria’.

  • MUSEUM OF HUMAN-HUNTING: Antwerp

    AUDIO EXHIBITION | dramaturgy

    2022 | Kunsthal Extra City & ROBIN (BE)

    An ever-evolving imaginary institution, unraveling present-day practices of humans hunting other humans within the context of the EU’s border policies.

  • CORONA VIRUS CRISIS: Europe's Migrant Camps

    BROADCAST | reporting

    2020 | BBC (UK)

    A BBC Panorama episode investigating conditions inside camps in Greece during the COVID-19 lockdown, as experts warn of the potential for dangerous outbreaks inside the camps.

  • EVEN AFTER DEATH

    FILM | co-directing

    2020 | ReFOCUS Media Labs (PL)

    A documentary, co-directed with Douglas Herman, paying tribute to the many refugees who have drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea into Europe.

  • MUSEUM OF HUMAN-HUNTING: Tunis

    AUDIO EXHIBITION | writing & voice

    2019 | L’Art Rue / Dream City (TN) & ROBIN (BE)

    An ever-evolving imaginary institution, unraveling present-day practices of humans hunting other humans within the context of the EU’s border policies.

  • THE WILD HUNT

    THEATRE PLAY | writing & voice

    2019 | Onassis Cultural Centre (GR), Kaaitheater, Kunstenfestivaldesarts & ROBIN (BE)

    An audio performance, conjuring up a yet-to-be-built museum of human-hunting, curated by experts from around the Mediterranean.

  • CHILDREN OF MORIA

    SHORT FILM | co-directing

    2019 | ReFOCUS Media Labs (PL)

    A one-minute documentary short film, co-directed with Javad Mousavi, on the plight of children in the Moria refugee camp in Lesvos, Greece.

  • BLINDED BY HOPE

    SHORT FILM | co-directing

    2019 | ReFOCUS Media Labs (PL)

    A one-minute documentary short film, co-directed with Javad Mousavi, about the only eye clinic providing medical support to refugees on the island of Lesvos, Greece.

  • تلویزیون نورین

    editor-in-chief

    2007 - 2013 | Noorin TV (AFGH)

  • تلويزيون آينه

    news editor

    2005 - 2007 | Ayna TV (AFGH)

  • وزارت بازسازی و انکشاف دهات

    NATIONAL SOLIDARITY PROGRAMME | reporter

    2003 | Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (AFGH)

about Reza

REZA ADIB رضا ادیب  (Mazar-i-Sharīf, 1982) has lived in exile all his life.

He started out writing freelance for several Afghan newspapers and magazines. He later trained as a journalist at the IRNA news agency in Mashhad and at Fanoos University in Kabul. In 2004, he joined Ayna TV as a news editor. In 2007, he made the move to Noorin TV, where he would be appointed editor-in-chief. During the 2009 elections, he acted as a media advisor to future Afghan president Ashraf Ghani.

Since 2013, Reza has been working as an independent investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker. The films and broadcasts he has developed for a.o. ReFOCUS Media Labs and BBC Panorama, raise pressing questions about the relationship between migration and human rights. 

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