Elamin Abdelmahmoud | |
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Born | [1] [2] | March 10, 1988
Education | Queen's University |
Occupation(s) | Writer and commentator |
Children | 1 |
Website | Official Instagram |
Elamin Abdelmahmoud (born March 10, 1988) [1] [2] is a Sudanese Canadian writer, culture and politics commentator, and broadcaster based in Toronto, Ontario. He is best known as a culture writer for BuzzFeed and as a CBC Radio podcast and network radio host.
In November 2022 the CBC announced that Abdelmahmoud would debut on January 30, 2023, as the host of Commotion , a daily pop culture magazine show which airs after Q weekday mornings. [3]
Abdelmahmoud was born in Sudan and emigrated to Canada at the age of 12, settling in Kingston, Ontario. [4] [5] He studied philosophy and gender studies at Queen's University, graduating in 2011. [4] As a student at Queen's he wrote for the Queen’s Journal and worked at CFRC-FM, the campus radio station. [6] In 2018, Abdelmahmoud was awarded the One to Watch Award by the Queen's Alumni Association. [7]
Abdelmahmoud's career began as a production assistant at the CBC. [4] He began working as researcher for George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight in 2012 before joining The National as a researcher and editorial assistant. [6] He left the CBC to join TVO, where he worked as a social for TVO's The Agenda . [4] [6] Abdelmahmoud joined BuzzFeed in 2015 and took over writing BuzzFeed's morning newsletter in 2018. [6] His inspirational newsletter signoffs gained widespread popularity, resulting in merchandise featuring his well wishes to readers. [6] Abdelmahmoud has been a panelist on The National and is a regular guest on other CBC programs. [8] In 2019 Abdelmahmoud began co-hosting the political podcast Party Lines with Canadian political journalist Rosemary Barton. [9] He began hosting Pop Chat in 2020. [10] The same year he joined the Podcast Playlist as the program's new host.
As a long-form writer, Abdelmahouhd has written about culture and politics for publications including Chatelaine , Maclean's and The Guardian . He is also known for writing about race as it pertains to music and social life including interviews with Yola, Rhiannon Giddens, [11] and Jason Isbell about racism in country music [12] and the whiteness of the Canadian cottage industry. [13]
Abdelmahmoud's first book Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces was published by Random House in 2022. [14] The book draws on his experience identifying as Arab as a child only to be defined as Black after arriving in Canada. [15] [16]
Abdelmahmoud lives in Toronto with his wife, Emily, and their daughter Amna Eliot. [17]