Fady Joudah

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name = Fady Joudah
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birth_date = 1971
birth_place = Austin, Texas
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nationality = Palestinian-American
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education = University of Georgia, Medical College of Georgia, University of Texas
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occupation = Physician, Poet
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Fady Joudah, a Palestinian-American poet and physician, is the 2007 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition for his collection of poems "The Earth in the Attic", which was published by Yale University Press in April 2008

Joudah was born in Austin, Texas in 1971 to Palestinian refugee parents, and grew up in Libya and Saudi Arabia. He returned to the United States to study to become a doctor, first attending the University of Georgia in Athens, and then the Medical College of Georgia, before completing his medical training at the University of Texas. Joudah currently practices as an ER physician in Houston, Texas. He has also volunteered abroad with the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders.

Joudah's poetry has been published in a variety of publications, including Poetry magazine, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Drunken Boat, Prairie Schooner and Crab Orchard. In 2006, he published "The Butterflies Burden", a collection of recent poems by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish translated from Arabic. He was a finalist for the 2008 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for his translation of Mahmoud Darwish's "The Butterfly's Burden".

References

* [http://imeu.net/news/article005755.shtml Profile of Fady Joudah at the Institute for Middle East Understanding]
* [http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060730/news_lz1v30rhyme.html "Poets beautifully plead for peace for people of Mideast", "The San Diego Union-Tribune", 30 July 2006]

External links

* [http://www.drunkenboat.com/db8/panlitpoetry/joudah/ Selections of Fady Joudah's poetry at Drunken Boat]
* [http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/newsletter/2006/news_joudah_1_06.asp "The Name of the Place" by Fady Joudah at Poets Against War]