Tayseer Abu Odeh

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Tayseer Abu Odeh is a Palestinian Jordanian writer and translator. 

He is the author of The Consolations of Exile (Arab Institute for Research and Publishing, 2019). With Sherah Bloor, he is the coeditor and co-translator of the bilingual anthology You Must Live (Copper Canyon Press, 2025).

Abu Odeh was a visiting scholar at the University of California, San Diego. Originally from Palestine, he lives in Jordan.