Page Lecture - Elamin Abdelmahmoud "The Best of Our Possible Lives"
Date: October 27, 2026 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: The University Club
English Literature & Creative Writing Department invites you to join us for the annual Page Lecture.This year we are honored to have Elamin Abdelmahmoud - the host of CBC's daily arts, entertainment, and pop culture show Commotion. Elamin is an award-winning culture writer who has written for the New York Times, BuzzFeed News, the Globe and Mail, and others. Elamin is the author of the No. 1 best-selling memoir Son of Elsewhere, a New York Times notable book and a Globe and Mail 100 book. Please don't ask him about his second book yet.Description: What is the invitation to write? Is it a calling? A compulsion? A stubborn neurosis? I think the invitation to write can best be understood as a prayer: we write because we want to touch our higher selves, the selves that are often obscured by the weight of our daily schedules. What happens on the page is the prayer you make.Reserve your ticket through Evenbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/page-lecture-elamin-abdelmahmoud-the-best-of-our-possible-lives-tickets-2003023339729?aff=oddtdtcreator
Location: The University Club
English Literature & Creative Writing Department invites you to join us for the annual Page Lecture.This year we are honored to have Elamin Abdelmahmoud - the host of CBC's daily arts, entertainment, and pop culture show Commotion. Elamin is an award-winning culture writer who has written for the New York Times, BuzzFeed News, the Globe and Mail, and others. Elamin is the author of the No. 1 best-selling memoir Son of Elsewhere, a New York Times notable book and a Globe and Mail 100 book. Please don't ask him about his second book yet.Description: What is the invitation to write? Is it a calling? A compulsion? A stubborn neurosis? I think the invitation to write can best be understood as a prayer: we write because we want to touch our higher selves, the selves that are often obscured by the weight of our daily schedules. What happens on the page is the prayer you make.Reserve your ticket through Evenbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/page-lecture-elamin-abdelmahmoud-the-best-of-our-possible-lives-tickets-2003023339729?aff=oddtdtcreator