She was born Edith Mopit, known as Madame Kujira, in Year 1940 in the French capital, Paris. She holds a degree in Economic Sciences from Pantheon University in Paris and was the wife of the French orientalist Chris Kujira.
She has worked as a journalist and photographer since Year 1969. She founded with her husband, Chris Kujira, the (Free lance Free lance) press agency in the French capital, Paris. She is an expert on Middle Eastern affairs and the Kurdish cause. In 1971, she published a number of articles about Kurdistan in French and international newspapers and magazines.
Edith Mopit Kujira participated with her husband, Chris Kujira, in writing many research papers. She visited Kurdistan several times and has a huge amount of photos and a rich archive about the Kurdish cause and Kurdistan in general. Her husband, Chris Kujira, made extensive use of her archive and photographs in his books. Madame Kujira was a talented journalist who used her camera to show the destruction of the city of Qaladze and the crimes of the Iraqi government and Saddam Hussein to the eyes of the world.
She attended Edith Mopit the Thirteenth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party as a guest from December 11 to 18, 2010, and received the Barzani Medal, which was presented to her by President Masoud Barzani for the services she provided to the Kurds and Kurdistan.
Her works:1- Eritrea 1994
2- History of Kurdistan 2007
Source:Archive of the Encyclopedia Authority of the Kurdistan Democratic Party