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Fady Joudah: Fady Joudah is a poet, translator, and emergency room physician. Born in Austin, Texas, and the son of Palestinian refugees, he was raised in Libya and Saudi Arabia. Joudah received his medical training from the Medical College of Georgia and University of Texas, and has traveled the world with Doctors Without Borders, providing medical assistance to those harmed by violence and catastrophe. His first book, "The Earth in the Attic, " won the 2007 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, judged by Louise Gluck. In 2010 he received a PEN translation award for his translations of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.