'I found life' — stateless, queer dancer makes San Diego — and the world — his home through ballet

'I found life' — stateless, queer dancer makes San Diego — and the world — his home through ballet

He danced through the war, through statelessness and through the death and destruction of his dreams. Today, Ahmad Joudeh is still dancing.  The Syria-born dancer was denied citizenship in his country of birth because only his mother was Syrian, and in that country women don’t give their nationalities to their children. His father was a refugee from Palestine, which meant that even before Joudeh was born, he was marked for statelessness. Today, …