Edith Maubec is known by the name (Madam Koçêra). She was born in 1940 in Paris, the capital of France. She obtained a degree in economics from the Panthéon University in Paris. She is the wife of Chris Kutschera, the French Orientalist.
She has been working in journalism and photography since 1969. Together with her husband Chris Kutschera, she established the Free Lance agency for journalism work in Paris, the capital of France. She is an expert on the Middle East and Kurdistan, and in 1971 she published a number of articles on Kurdistan in French and international newspapers and magazines. Edith Maubec Kutschera, side by side with her husband Chris Kutschera, participated in writing research. She has come to Kurdistan many times and has a rich archive of photos and materials on the Kurdish issue and Kurdistan. Chris Kutschera made great use of his wife's archives and photos for his books. Madam Kutschera was a skilled reporter and one of those reporters who, with her camera, was able to show the destruction of the city of Qaladiza and the crimes of the Iraqi government and Saddam Hussein to the public opinion of the world and the people.
Edith Maubec participated as a guest in the thirteenth congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party on December 11-18, 2010. Because of those services she provided to the Kurds and Kurdistan, by President Masoud Barzani she received the Barzani medal.
Her works:
1- Eritrea 1994
2- History of Kurdistan 2007
1. Archive of the Encyclopedia Board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.