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Canadian military officer

Wafa Dabbagh (died 5 June 2012) was a Canadian military officer. She was the first Canadian Armed Forces member to wear a hijab.

Born to a Palestinian family in Egypt and raised in Kuwait, Dabbagh emigrated to Canada and joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1996 after "accidentally wandering into a recruiting office in Windsor". She served with the naval reserves and was a participant in Operation Proteus in 2007, a mission to train security forces in Palestine. She attained the rank of lieutenant-commander, but was prevented from seeking promotion to command by a cancer diagnosis in 2010.

Dabbagh died of lung cancer in Ottawa in 2012. Shortly before her death she received the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal.

References

  1. "Canadian Armed Forces and women over the years". Canadian Military Family Magazine. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
  2. ^ Louisa Taylor (10 June 2012). "A true trail-blazer". The Ottawa Citizen.

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