Rachel Wahba

The point of no return to Egypt

The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is currently the strongest political force in Egypt. Many observers believe they will remain the...

Tasting India

I was almost six — I desperately wanted to taste India again. The bottle of gripe tonic water sat next to Dad’s 4711 Cologne on top of...

How I Got My Tan And Lost My Identity

I was eighteen when I landed in Los Angeles International airport. After a lifetime of being a brown “curombo, (darky)" in Japan, I...

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.