Muna Wassef (also spelled Mona Wasef) (Arabic: منى واصف; born 9 February 1942) is a Syrian kurdish stage, film and television actress.

Wassef is credited for acting alongside Salah Zulfikar at the prime of her career in Memory of a Night of Love (1973).

[5] Although Wassef did not finish high school, she educated herself and learned to present the majority of her works in Standard Arabic.

In 1960, Wassef submitted herself for a contest in which they chose actresses for the Military theater, which was part of the Syrian Ministry of Defense.

She worked in the symposium of Art and Thought which was sponsored by Dr. (Rafeq Al Sabagh) in presenting Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice in 1963.

She was married to the late Syrian film Director Muhammad Shahin, and together they formed one of the Arab world's most popular celebrity couples.

They have one son Ammar Abdulhamid, who lives in the United States, Washington, D.C., with his wife Khawla, daughter Oula (b.

Currently, Wassef divides her time between her artistic career and her interest in issues pertaining to the emancipation of women in the Arab world.