[1] From 2007 until 2016, he lived in Damascus, studying dance, and teaching ballet to support himself, and to orphaned and disabled children free of charge.

In 2016 Roozbeh Kaboly, from the Dutch news program Nieuwsuur, made a 50-minute documentary about Ahmad called Dance or Die.

In 2018, a second film about Joudeh, Dance for Peace, which includes his meeting and reconciliation with his father at his refugee camp in Berlin, was broadcast on Dutch television on the Nieuwsuur program.

He decided to go to the Netherlands at the invitation of Ted Brandsen, artistic director of the Dutch National Ballet Company.

[1] On 20 May 2021, Joudeh performed during the interval of the second semi-final of Eurovision Song Contest 2021 in Rotterdam alongside BMX-er Dez Maarsen.