# Amin Amir (Amiin Caamir)

> Amin Amir: Edmonton-based Somali cartoonist known as Amin Arts, Hiiraan Online Person of the Year 2004.

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## Who is he?

Amin Amir is a Somali-Canadian cartoonist and painter born in Somalia between 1959 and 1960 ([Wikipedia, Amin Amir](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_Amir)). He left Somalia after the civil war began, moved to Canada in 2000, and his family settled in Edmonton in 2006 (same source). See [Somalis in Edmonton](/en/diaspora/edmonton/).

## Art

He publishes as Amin Arts, and his political cartoons, written in Somali, appear regularly in Somali media including [Hiiraan Online](/en/economy/somali-media-companies/) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_Amir)). His work uses satire and caricature to push for change in Somalia, and also paints hopeful scenes from his early life there (same source).

In 2010 he held his first Canadian exhibition at Edmonton City Hall (same source). He mentors young artists (same source).

## Awards

Hiiraan Online named him Person of the Year in 2004, and he was runner-up in the 2011 Hadaf Somalia International Cartoon Competition ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_Amir)).

## In short

The Edmonton-based cartoonist whose Somali-language satire is read across the diaspora.

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