Loolwa Khazzoom () is an Iraqi American-Jewish 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. She was heavily involved in the Jewish feminist movement of the 1990s and is the founder of the Jewish Multicultural Project. She has also worked as a public relations manager for health and wellness practitioners. Early life Khazzoom was raised in California by an American Jewish mother and an Iraqi Jewish father. 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. They wanted me to be doing what everybody else was doing - that is, reading an Ashkenazi prayer book in Ashkenazi style." She attended Barnard College, where she majored in political science. Jewish multicultural and feminist work Khazzoom is the founder of the Jewish Multicultural Project, which provides educational resources to Jewish communities about diversity in Jewish culture and tradition. She was also involved in SOJIAC (Student Organization for Jews from Iran and Arab Countries) and JIMENA (Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa). She participated in the filming of The Way Home, a documentary about the interplay of race and gender in America, and played a significant role in diversifying the group of Jewish women represented in the film. She is featured in the Jewish Women's Archive's online exhibit Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution for her work on topics of multiculturalism and gender. Khazzoom is featured in the documentary, Young, Jewish, and Left. Books Khazzoom's first book, Consequence: Beyond Resisting Rape, was published in 2002. It follows the adventures of Khazzoom as she pushes the envelopes in responding to daily doses of sexual harassment. A review from the Street Harassment Project stated that “the fact that Khazzoom has been brave enough to fiercely raise the question should prompt us to read this book, and, at the very least, consider how we live our lives and how we would like to live our lives.” In 2003, Khazzoom edited "The Flying Camel: Essays on Identity by Women of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Heritage," the first