Sarah Abdali Idan (Arabic: سارة عيدان; born 4 February 1990) is an Iraqi-American model, television host, musician, beauty pageant titleholder, and politician who was crowned as Miss Universe Iraq 2017 and represented Iraq at the Miss Universe 2017 pageant.
Sarah graduated from Musicians Institute in performance arts in Hollywood, Los Angeles with emphasis on jazz and contemporary music.
She plays piano, guitar and harmonica and can sing in English, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese and French.
[10][11][12] In June 2019, Idan became an Ambassador for Peace by UN Watch, and she spoke at the UNHRC, criticizing the Iraqi government's failure to condemn death threats against her and its curtailment of freedom of speech.
She also called out biased media for not reporting on Hamas firing missiles at Israeli civilians and using Palestinians as human shields.
[13][14] In September 2020, she was invited to the signing ceremony of the Abraham Accords, the establishment of relations between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain at the White House, where she also took pictures with the head of the Mossad, Yossi Cohen.
[15] Starting January 2018, Idan hosted an entertainment show with Indian news channel WION.
There are a lot of Iraqi people on my side, and I believe they are happy I am here.In December 2023, she revisited Israel, in which she toured the location of the Kfar Aza massacre, during the Israel–Hamas war, then she prayed for peace at the Western Wall.