Rachel Wahba

Arab Jew

Why do you call yourself an Arab Jew?” For those of us from Arab lands, identity has always been an issue. Some of us just want to...

Rouhani’s Crumbs are not Cake

Is it Spring again, do we have a “moderate” in Iran’s new President Rouhani and are we going to see the crumbs he threw our way as cake?...

Iraqi Jewish Artifacts – Ownership?

After a presence of over 2,500 years, the ancient Jewish community of Iraq was destroyed in the early 1950’s. A community of less than...

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.