Yazan Abdul Ghani Haymour holds a degree in Child Psychology and chairs the Canadian Arab Friendship Association (CAFA).

Winner of the Nina Timberly Award, which is the highest award given in Heritage Days celebrations.

Winner of Heritage Festival Awards

Winner of the Canada Founding Memorial Silver Medal

Winner of awards and medals from the Edmonton City Police for his volunteer services and awareness programs for the community’s youth.

Yazan Abdul Ghani Haymour, or Uncle (3amo) Yazan, as the people of the Arab communities in Edmonton like to call him, belongs to Lebanon as a whole. He immigrated to Canada as a youth, where he followed Arabic language courses.

He later managed the Arab Association in Edmonton, where he worked to consolidate its goals in the region and spread its teachings. He 
worked in partnership with the Alberta Ministry of Education and Edmonton Public School Board to include Arabic in the curriculum 

He took courses in social counselling that allowed him to work with the Social Affairs Foundation - the Department of Care for Youth Issues and Problems, who without a doubt became their trustworthy reference and defender, as well as the incubator of their daily stories and pains.

He worked to help immigrants diversify their identities and desires, to spare them the repercussions and problems of alienation, and to facilitate their integration into the new society, in addition to strengthening the bridge of communication between newcomers and residents, through the portal of the Arab-Canadian Friendship Society, which was and continues to be the ideal framework for providing such care services.

He worked to spread the teachings of the Arabic language among members of its communities. He cooperated - in the name of the association - with the Department of Education, and with great support from members of the Arab communities and those who believe in the importance of the Arabic language and its pioneering role in Arab culture and civilization, in order to approve the teaching of the Arabic language in public schools, which was born in the Glengarry School in Edmonton. In the year 1983-1984, this is not to mention the distinguished achievement that was achieved later, represented by the Minister of Education, David Egan, issuing his historic decision to make the Arabic language an official language in the province, of Alberta’s educational curriculum, which is a unique decision recorded throughout Canada and North America, which requires During which schools open classes to teach if there is a sufficient number of students for study.

Uncle Yazan was able, through the offerings of the Arab Friendship Association, to attract a significant number of students, the number of which exceeded two thousand students of various Arab ages and nationalities, who continued their studies until the secondary stage, before moving to the University of Alberta, where the Arab Association had the first role in establishing Arabic language program.  

He holds an honorary doctorate from the Alberta Academy of Theology, which he has always considered “honourable” for his humility and the virtues of his high human morals.

Canadian writer David Stewart co-wrote three books related to introducing Islam, which placed his name confidently on the list of researchers and bloggers of in-depth religious philosophical books.

NCCAR is Celebrating November - Lebanese Heritage Month under the patronage of the Embassy of Lebanon, Ottawa.