Loolwa Khazzoom (KHAZZOOM.com) is an innovative multimedia artist and educator. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, BBC News, Rolling Stone, and other top media worldwide, and she has presented at Harvard University, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Barnard Center for Research on Women, and other leading institutes worldwide. She offers dynamic programs that integrate music, poetry, readings, storytelling, and heart-centered conversations - designed to uniquely engage and inspire participants.Khazzoom's diverse body of work shares the common theme of alchemy - transmuting the energies of pain and suffering into those of healing, joy, wholeness, beauty, and love, through a radical willingness to do whatever it takes to be truly well. To this end, Khazzoom has released many original albums, videos, and books.From 1990-2010, Khazzoom was a trailblazing Jewish multicultural educator. She founded and directed numerous ground-breaking organizations - through which she educated Jewish community leaders and laypeople alike, about global Jewish history and heritage, and through which she radically transformed thinking and language about Jewish identity, community, education, and practice. In this capacity, she accomplished many firsts, including leading the first egalitarian Mizrahi/Sephardi services and developing the first curriculum about Jewish communities across the globe.Today Khazzoom leads two musical projects: Iraqis in Pajamas combines Iraqi Jewish prayers with original alternative and punk rock, and Shaddai Chants is a New Age take on Iraqi Jewish chants, for use in sacred dance practice, meditation, yoga, massage, and sleep. Both can be found at KHAZZOOMusic.com.
