Emanuel Lowi, M.S.

Biography

Emanuel Lowi is a journalist, photographer and teacher.

His work as a journalist serves First Peoples in Quebec and in Canada -- especially the Inuit of Nunavik and the Cree of Eeyou Istchee -- as well as in the Middle East, where Emanuel lives with Indigenous Bedouin in the Sinai desert.

Professor Lowi has worked for National Geographic magazine, for CBC Radio and for the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) National News. His articles have been published in Canada and internationally in numerous magazines and newspapers.

He has been contracted by Concordia University to teach in the First Peoples Studies program, in the School of Community and Public Affairs, in the Department of Geography, Planning, Environment, in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, in the Department of History, in the Faculty of Fine Arts, and in Concordia Continuing Education's Journalism program. Emanuel has taught Indigenous students at Nunavik Sivunitsavut and Indigenous participants at Projets Autochtones du Québec (PAQ). 

Emanuel Lowi is an activist veteran of Indigenous rights struggles, politics and Indigenous news media for more than 40 years.

He has been employed by Indigenous organizations including the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN), the National Aboriginal Health Organization (NAHO), Makivik Corporation, Ilagiisaq (Fédération des coopératives du Nouveau-Québec), Avataq Cultural Institute and by Kativik Ilisarniliriniq.

In the Middle East, Emanuel has worked as a journalist in Israel, Palestine, Syria, Egypt, Jordan and Yemen. 

Emanuel Lowi has been enrolled as a Ph.D candidate in Concordia University's Individualized (INDI) Program. His research focussed on Indigenous peoples' use of communications media as a tool of resilience, cultural resurgence, community solidarity and resistance to colonialism.

https://www.concordia.ca/sgs/programs/individualized/student-research.html

Professor Lowi earned a B.A. in English and Politics at Brandeis University, a degree in Education from McGill University and an M.S. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City.

• Indigenous cultures and knowledges
• Issues in contemporary First Nations and Inuit life
• Contemporary Indigenous politics
• Indigenous-Settler relations
• Indigenous land rights and self-government
• Indigenous resistance
• Urban Indigenous lives
• Environmental activism
• Journalistic media practices
• Investigative reporting
• Commentary and criticism
• Creative expression
• Intercultural communication
• Photojournalism

Published in:

• Le Monde Diplomatique

• Le Devoir

• Auf Einen Blick

• Asiaweek

• Haaretz

• Jerusalem Report

• Reader’s Digest

• Family Circle

• Wine Spectator

• Canadian Geographic

• Equinox

• The Globe and Mail

• National Post

• Ottawa Citizen

• Vancouver Sun

• Regina Leader-Post

• Winnipeg Free Press

• The Gazette

• The Mirror

• The Nation

• Windspeaker

• Nunatsiaq News

• Inuktitut

• Tumivut

• Kanguq

• Above & Beyond

• Now

• Canadian Press

• Canwest wire services

https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/I_get_tears_in_my_eyes_when_I_think_of_my_mother/

https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/629_elisapie_isaac_steps_out_with_first_solo_cd/ 

https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/418_nunavik_poet_dies_suddenly_in_montreal/

https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/First_Air_payouts_among_ivisive_issues/

https://viewer.joomag.com/kanguq-hiver-%e1%90%85%e1%91%ad%e1%90%85%e1%96%85-winter-2016/0589554001452285317?short&

http://www.nationnewsarchives.ca/article/will-the-real-self-government-stand-up/

https://www.pressreader.com/canada/ottawa-citizen/20071021/281663955645949

https://ammsa.com/publications/windspeaker/squeeze-play-inuit-housing-reaches-critical-stage-0

https://www.haaretz.com/1.5391491

https://www.proquest.com/docview/216025702

https://www.proquest.com/docview/216190894/

https://www.academia.edu/40263990/Equinox_Sinai

Broadcast on:

CBC/Radio-Canada

• Morningside

• Sunday Morning

• This Morning

• Ideas

• Cross Country Checkup

• Now the Details

• Daybreak

• Radio Noon

• CBC News Montreal at 6

• Quebec AM

• Open House

• Commentary

• Infotape

• RDI Matin Week-end

• Boréal Hebdo

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2029630019698

Aboriginal Peoples Television Network

• APTN National News 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APTN_National_News#History

Wapikoni Mobile

https://vimeo.com/566288467

https://vimeo.com/566288285

Emanuel Lowi is also a published poet:

http://www.bookmineset.com/2006/11/writers-diary-194-peter-van-toorn.html

Honours

•  21^st Inuit Studies Conference, guest lecturer, Montreal, Quebec

https://www.academia.edu/44061446/Inuit_Studies_Conference_Speech

•  Historical Injustice and its Representation in Media lecture series, guest lecturer, "Hidden in Plain Sight: the Deaths of Indigenous School Children in Canada," EPICUR European University

•  Winner, Russell I. Elman Award, for the most deserving Canadian journalism student at Columbia University

•  Winner, Government of Sweden journalism fellowship, for reporting on Indigenous Sámi politics

•  Winner, Michener Award for Journalism, for “A l'heure de choix,” published by Le Devoir (contributor)

https://www.michenerawards.ca/historical-timeline/1980s/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michener_Award

•  Nominated, The National Magazine Awards (Canada), Best Cover Photograph

Relations

Emanuel Lowi's family members are Inuit, Jewish, Muslim and Christian.

He is a voting member of Projets Autochtones du Québec.