Yassmina Karajah is a Jordanian-Palestinian screenwriter and director whose  short films have screened internationally in festivals such as the Toronto International Film Festival, AFI, Dubai International Film Festival, and Melbourne International Film festival, amongst others. She released her debut short LIGHT in 2015, and her subsequent 2018 short film RUPTURE premiered at TIFF, and was part of MoMA’s New Directors/New Films. It won the Grand Jury prize at Slamdance, where she was the first recipient of the Russo Brother's Fellowship. Her 2025 short film AMBUSH seeks to blend documentary elements with fiction. 

Karajah is an alumna of the University of Bristol Law School (LL.B). She holds a degree in Film Production from the University of British Columbia and is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre’s Directors' Lab.