Rachel Wahba (born March 19, 1946) is a writer of Mizrahi/Sephardic Jewish topics and a psychotherapist in private practice in San Francisco and in Marin County.

She has written extensively about her mother's traumatic[1] experience during the Farhud, the pogrom carried out against the Jewish population of Baghdad in June 1941.

Wahba, her mother and her younger brother arrived in 1950, with assistance of the Red Cross as they were stateless persons.

[7] Upon arriving in the U.S., Wahba was thrilled to find her brown skin color (unappreciated in Japan as curombo ("darky") a plus in Los Angeles.

Wahba serves on the advisory board of JIMENA (Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa).