{"id":102041,"date":"2022-06-22T17:32:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T21:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=102041"},"modified":"2022-06-22T17:32:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T21:32:35","slug":"cbc-host-and-buzzfeed-writer-remembers-his-local-radio-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/cbc-host-and-buzzfeed-writer-remembers-his-local-radio-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"CBC host and BuzzFeed writer remembers his local radio roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Host of the CBC podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/listen\/cbc-podcasts\/438-pop-chat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pop Chat <\/a>\u00a0and culture writer for BuzzFeed news Elamin Abdelmahmoud returned to Kingston on Tuesday evening to talk about his new book <em>Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir In Pieces<\/em>\u00a0at Domino Theatre. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The book is a collection of essays reflecting on immigrating to Canada from Sudan, settling in Kingston when he was 12 and finding his identity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019ve had this skin colour my whole life. Living in Sudan, I didn\u2019t see myself as a Black person. I come to this country, suddenly, I have to figure out what does this mean? I explore that move across different sides of the definition of Blackness,\" says Abdelmahmoud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Abdelmahmoud is a Queens University alumni and worked as news director at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfrc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CFRC 101.9 FM<\/a>. He says CFRC takes a different approach than major news outlets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhen we look at a big story that\u2019s national like housing\u2026I think a news organization might be tempted to talk to some policy people..I think there is a deeper, more local level of activists trying to do something who might not get a voice on a major news story or someone experiencing homelessness\u2026CFRC might be more plugged in because they may have access to the activists who can make that connection\u2026.you get that local, on the ground level expertise, nothing can replace that,\" says Abdelmahmoud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He adds in addition to the exploration of identity, readers will find many pop culture references in the book including familiar spots for Kingston residents. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.ca\/books\/611405\/son-of-elsewhere-by-elamin-abdelmahmoud\/9780771002229\"><em>Son Of Elsewhere<\/em><\/a> is available now for purchase.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the full CFRC interview with Elamin Abdelmahmoud below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Host of the CBC podcast Pop Chat \u00a0and culture writer for BuzzFeed news Elamin Abdelmahmoud returned to Kingston on Tuesday evening to talk about his new book Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir In Pieces\u00a0at Domino Theatre. The book is a collection of essays reflecting on immigrating to Canada from Sudan, settling in Kingston when he&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":102043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219],"tags":[3328,15963,11239,15962,15004,15964,6750,15966,15965],"radio":[13056],"origine":[267,13051,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102041"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102234,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102041\/revisions\/102234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102041"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=102041"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=102041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}