Alabali-Radovan was born in Moscow in 1990. Her parents, Iraqi Assyrians who opposed the regime of Saddam Hussein, had moved to the Soviet Union in the 1980s to study engineering. Her grandfather, Muhammad Salih Alabali, was an Iraqi resistance leader who was executed by the Ba’athist regime.[1] In 1996, the family sought, and received asylum in Germany, settling in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.[2][3] She completed her school education at the Gymnasium Fridericianum Schwerin. Alabali graduated with a bachelor's degree in political science from the Free University of Berlin and has started a master's degree program (distance learning) in Sustainable Development Cooperation at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern.[4]
Within her parliamentary group, Alabali-Radovan belongs to the Parliamentary Left, a left-wing movement.[7]
On 8 December 2021, the Scholz cabinet appointed Alabali-Radovan as Federal Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration with the rank of a Minister of State in the Federal Chancellery. Since 23 February 2022, she has additionally served as the Federal Government Commissioner for Anti-Racism.