2026 Page Lecture - Elamin Abdelmahmoud "The Best of Our Possible Lives"

Join Elamin Abdelmahmoud for a thought-provoking chat about making the most out of life’s endless possibilities. Page Lecture English Literature & Creative Writing Department at Queen's University invites you to join in person for Elamin Abdelmahmoud’s “The Best of Our Possible Lives.” Elamin Abdelmahmoud is the host of CBC's daily arts, entertainment, and ​pop culture show Commotion. He 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. Topic: 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.