 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, Beloit Poetry Journal, Kenyon Review, Drunken Boat, Prairie Schooner and Crab Orchard Review.In 2006, he published "The Butterfly's Burden", a collection of recent poems by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish translated from Arabic, which was a finalist for the 2008 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.