Husam Wafaei

Husam Wafaei is a Syrian-Canadian author, retired Royal Canadian Air Force veteran, and aviation professor at Seneca Polytechnic. Born and raised in Aleppo, Syria, he served 26 years in the RCAF on missions in Somalia, Bosnia, Iraq, Sinai, Congo, and Rwanda, including a 1994 rescue operation during the Rwandan genocide. He is the founder and president of the Syrian Canadian Foundation for Humanity and authored the historical fiction novel 'Honourable Defection' about the Syrian civil war, published in 2012.[1][2][3]