In addition to her parliamentary work, Alabali-Radovan also currently serves as Minister of State at the Chancellery and Federal Commissioner for Migration, Refugees, and Integration in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's cabinet since 2021.

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.

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] In 2020, Alabali-Radovan was appointed Commissioner for integration of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state government.