Aisha Odeh (Arabic: عائشة عودة, ALA-LC: ʻĀʼishah ʻAwdah; born 1944) is a Palestinian writer.

[1] As a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), she was sentenced to life imprisonment after she participated in a 1969 supermarket bombing that killed two Israelis.

[5] She details the events of her imprisonment in her memoir, أحلام بالحرية (Dreams of Freedom), including allegations of sexual violence, harassment and rape by her Israeli captors.

[citation needed] On 14 March 1979, Odeh was freed as part of a prisoner exchange agreement but was repatriated to Jordan.

[1][4] Odeh has published three books: her two-part autobiography as أحلام بالحرية (Dreams of Freedom; 2004) and ثمناً للشمس (The Price of the Sun; 2012), and the short story collection يوم مختلف (A Different Day; 2007).

[4] The Ibn Rushd Prize 2015 had called for: "An author of a work of prison literature which stimulates a broad public debate on the situation of political prisoners, showing oppression and violation of human rights and demanding the right for liberty and human dignity in the Arab world.