Rachel Wahba

Willful ignorance, not the Hijab, is the problem

Not all Muslims are Islamists. Let’s get that out of the way. Rumi, his love Shams, Hafiz, and the mystics would be forced to escape...

Jul 24, 2017

Ibrahim Shihabi and I found each other at “People to People” the foreign students club in the San Fernando Valley. We became close...

Jun 6, 2017

How was this night different? Was I being a bad Jew? Was I a good Jew all through Catholic schools in Japan, resisting, resisting,...

Apr 29, 2017

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.