Jennifer Jajeh

{{short description|American actress and writer}}

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Jennifer Jajeh is an American actress and writer.

In 2008, Jajeh wrote a solo performance, I Heart Hamas: And Other Things I'm Afraid to Tell You, which she has performed.{{cite book |last1=Cainkar |first1=Louise |last2=Vinson |first2=Pauline Homsi |last3=Jarmakani |first3=Amira |title=Sajjilu Arab American: A Reader in SWANA Studies |date=4 August 2022 |publisher=Syracuse University Press |isbn=978-0-8156-5522-0 |page=330 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=okuCEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA330}}{{cite journal |last1=Kritzer |first1=Amelia Howe |title=Enough! Women Playwrights Confront the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict |journal=Theatre Journal |date=2010 |volume=62 |issue=4 |pages=611–626 |doi=10.1353/tj.2010.a413934 |jstor=41000803 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41000803 |issn=0192-2882}}{{cite web | newspaper=The Minnesota Daily | url=https://mndaily.com/198878/arts-entertainment/art/i-heart-hamas-explores-identity/ | title="I Heart Hamas" explores identity | first=Mark | last=Brendan | date=17 February 2010 | accessdate=14 June 2023}}

Jajeh has written screenplays for the short films Fruition and In My Own Skin, with the latter screening at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and on PBS. As a producer, she has worked on documentaries, narrative film, and video projects.{{Cite web |title=Ethnically Ambiguous: We Are Jennifer Jajeh on Apple Podcasts |url=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-are-jennifer-jajeh/id1260618706?i=1000533541314 |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=Apple Podcasts}}{{cite news |last=Lenika |first=Cruz |date=26 June 2011 |title=Alumna Jennifer Jajeh receives critical acclaim for solo theater show 'I Heart Hamas: And Other Things I'm Afraid to Tell You' |newspaper=Daily Bruin |url=https://dailybruin.com/2011/06/26/alumna_jennifer_jajeh_receives_critical_acclaim_for_solo_theater_show_039i_heart_hamas_and_other_thi}}{{cite news|url=https://dailybruin.com/2011/06/26/for_ucla_alumna_jennifer_jajeh_working_in_entertainment_offers_way_to_create_meaning_explore_people039s_lives |newspaper=Daily Bruin |title=For UCLA alumna Jennifer Jajeh, working in entertainment offers way to create meaning, explore people's lives}}{{Cite web |date=2012-12-10 |title=Palestinian-American Comedian Takes Show on Identity to Beirut - Al-Monitor: Independent, trusted coverage of the Middle East |url=https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2012/al-monitor/jenniferjajehhamaspalesinian.html |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=www.al-monitor.com}}{{Cite web |last=Murphy |first=Maureen Clare |date=2010-03-02 |title=Pushing the boundaries of identity: an interview with Jennifer Jajeh |url=https://electronicintifada.net/content/pushing-boundaries-identity-interview-jennifer-jajeh/8706 |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=The Electronic Intifada}}{{Cite web |last=Abney |first=Andrea |date=2009-09-17 |title='I Heart Hamas': Palestinian immigrant's story |url=https://www.sfgate.com/thingstodo/article/i-heart-hamas-palestinian-immigrant-s-story-3286755.php |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=SFGATE}}{{Cite web |last1=Elshair |first1=Sarah |date=2017-04-29 |title=These Middle Eastern comedians most definitely make America LOL |url=https://stepfeed.com/these-middle-eastern-comedians-most-definitely-make-america-lol-3158 |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=StepFeed}}