| Birth Date: | 27 August 1995[1] |
| Birth Place: | Damascus, Syria |
| Country: | Refugee Olympic Team |
| Weight Class: | 57 kg, 63 kg |
| Olympics Rank: | R32 |
| Olympics Year: | 2020 |
| Olympics Weight: | Women's 63 kg |
| Olympics Year2: | 2024 |
| Olympics Weight2: | Women's 57 kg |
| Worlds Rank: | R32 |
| Worlds Year: | 2023 |
| Worlds Weight: | Women's 57 kg |
| Regionals Type: | EU |
| Regionals Rank: | R32 |
| Regionals Year: | 2023 |
| Regionals Weight: | Women's 57 kg |
| Regionals Year2: | 2024 |
| Regionals Weight2: | Women's 57 kg |
| Updated: | 29 July 2024 |
Muna Dahouk (Arabic: منى دهوك; born 27 August 1995) is a judoka from Syria who competed at the 2020 Olympic Games as part of the IOC Refugee Team.
She started judo in Damascus when she was six years old.[2] Her father was a judo teacher and her sister, Oula, also competes. After the civil war broke out, their father was killed. In 2019, she fled Syria and joined her mother in the Netherlands, and settled in 's-Hertogenbosch.[3] [4]
Dahouk competed at the 2019 Budapest Grand Prix, the 2020 Paris Grand Slam and the 2020 Düsseldorf Grand Slam.[1] [2]
Dahouk was selected as part of the IOC Refugee Team in June 2021.[5] She competed at the 2020 Olympic Games in the Women's 63 kg and the Mixed team events.[2] In the individual event she faced 2019 Pan American Games champion Maylín del Toro Carvajal.[6]
Dahouk took part in the 2023 European Judo Championships in Montpellier.[7]
She is competing in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris as part of the Refugee Olympic Team. She told CBS that she wants to use her platform as a refugee athlete to break down stereotypes and challenge misconceptions about refugees: "I will represent the refugees around the world – to show people what the refugees can do. We are not weak people. We can be athletes, we can be students, we can be anything we want."[4]
She is the cousin of fellow judoka Sanda Aldass.[8] She graduated from a commercial and banking institute in Syria and later studied sport in the Netherlands.[2] She features in the Waad Al-Kateab documentary We Dare to Dream.[9]