Loolwa Khazzoom

Loolwa Khazzoom (Arabic: لولوا خزوم‎) is an Iraqi American-Jewish[1] writer who writes about Jewish multiculturalism as well as the cultural traditions and modern struggles of Sephardi, Mizrahi, Yemenite and Ethiopian Jews. She is involved in the Jewish Multicultural Project as well as the organization Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa (JIMENA). In 2003, Khazzoom edited "The Flying Camel: Essays on Identity by Women of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Heritage," the first English-language anthology devoted to the writings of Mizrahi Jewish women.[2] Contributors included Rachel Wahba, Ella Shohat, and Lital Levy.

Khazzoom is featured in the documentary, Young, Jewish, and Left.

References

  1. ↑ Amazon.com: Yentl's Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism: Books: Susannah Heschel,Danya Ruttenberg
  2. ↑ Loolwa Khazzoom, ed., The Flying Camel: Essays on Identity by Women of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Heritage (New York: Seal Press 2003).
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