October - 2014

Lesbians, Finger Exercises, and Her Piano

Video camera in hand, Donna Deitch of Desert Hearts fame asked my outspoken 95-year-old grandmother, "Granny, did you ever think of being...

Traveling through The Feminine Mystique to Lesbian Feminism

I was expecting a book on how to look glamorous, sexy, appealing to men. After all, it was called The Feminine Mystique. I was young and...

Dinner in Baghdad with the Grand Mufti

Baghdad was a terrible shock for her. Meeda Elias, my maternal grandmother was just sixteen when she left her native Singapore with her...

Rachel Wahba is a writer, psychotherapist, and co-founder of Olivia Travel/Companies. An Iraqi -Egyptian Jew, born in India, she grew up in Japan.

The many dimensions of

displacement and exile are a constant theme in her work as a writer, therapist, and in her activism as a Mizrahi Jew who grew up stateless.