Rachel Wahba

From Jewish Refugees to Dudu Tassa’s Iraq n’ Roll

My father an Egyptian Jew, and I would discuss the same issue every few years until his death in 2006. That’s a lot of years going over...

Running with Denial– Morsi and Egyptian Jews

The Egyptian government recently overran its own censors in their attempt to ban the screening of a documentary featuring Egyptian Jews...

We were Jews in Egypt…and Iraq, and…

In my grandmother’s time, making what we Iraqis call silan (see-lan), a syrup, made from dates, was a daylong labor of love. She cooked...

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.