Loolwa Khazzoom (Arabic: لولوا خزوم) is an Iraqi American-Jewish[1] writer, journalist, activist, and musician.
She has spoken and written extensively about Jewish multiculturalism as well as the cultural traditions and modern struggles of Sephardi, Mizrahi, Yemenite, and Ethiopian Jews.
[2] She received a Jewish education as a child, and first encountered the othering effects of being a Mizrachi Jew at her school: "I was only seven when I started reading from a Mizrahi prayer book, and my teachers would make faces and say nasty things about me in front of the class.
A review from InterfaithFamily called her editing “truly admirable” and stated that “The power of this book is clear: these women are ready to tell their stories and will not stop until they are heard.”[13] Khazzoom wrote an essay for the book Yentl’s Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism discussing the double alienation of being both female and Iraqi in Jewish spaces.
[19] Additionally, Khazzoom has written several articles for Rolling Stone about Israeli hip-hop,[20] and been published numerous times in HuffPost on topics regarding health and wellness.