Nadia

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Noor "Nadia" Abed Jazeem

Portrayed by Andrea Gabriel

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Appeared in

"Solitary"
"Lockdown"
"Greatest Hits"
"There's No Place Like Home, Part 1"

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Name

Noor Abed Jazeem

Also Known As

Nadia

Status

Alive

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Date of death

20 October 2005

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Origin

Tikrit, Salah AdDin, Iraq

Profession

Lab Assistant

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Family members

Sayid Jarrah - Husband

Connection

Sayid's future wife
Locke's client
Saved from a mugger by Charlie
Future friend of Jack, Kate, Hurley and possibly Sun

Season(s)

S1 - S2 - S3 - MP - S4

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This article is about the woman in Sayid's flashbacks. For Mikhail's cat named Nadia, see cats.

Noor "Nadia" Abed Jazeem was Sayid's childhood friend and long-lost love. She was reunited with Sayid when he returned from the Island, and married him. However, she was murdered soon afterwards, apparently by someone working for Charles Widmore, prompting Sayid to work for Ben as an assassin.

Prior to the rescue

In Iraq

Nadia is interrogated by Sayid. ("Solitary")

Nadia met Sayid at a young age, tormenting him because he wouldn't give her attention. Despite her wealthy background, she later chose to join an insurgent group against Saddam Hussein's regime, which caused her to become the subject of repeated captures and interrogations by the Iraqi Republican Guard.

When Sayid was promoted to the Intelligence Division, he was reunited with Nadia while she was imprisoned. He was tasked with her interrogation, which he attempted to carry out, but they reconnected more and more throughout her captivity. Sayid even tried to help her get her charges dropped. Ultimately, when his superior officer, Omar, ordered her execution, Sayid resolved to instead help her escape. During the attempt, Sayid had to shoot Omar, who caught up with him and Nadia. Additionally, as a cover story, Sayid shot himself in the leg and let Nadia escape with his gun. Before escaping, a panicked Nadia begged Sayid to come with her. When he refused, she left him her photo with the Arabic inscription; "You will see me in the next life, if not in this one". ("Solitary")

After Iraq

Nadia is saved by Charlie in London. ("Greatest Hits")

Nadia's escape was successful, and sometime three years after her escape, she fled to Los Angeles. At some point, John Locke was hired to inspect a house she was buying. Through the few words they exchanged, she revealed that she was not married. ("Lockdown")

At some point, Nadia was in England, where Charlie spotted her being mugged in an alleyway. After he confronted the mugger and drove him away, Nadia thanked Charlie and called him a hero, telling him that several other people had noticed the attack without taking any action. Charlie later regarded this as one of the best moments of his life, though he never knew he'd met the woman Sayid loved. ("Greatest Hits")

Her whereabouts were later used as a lure by the CIA to get Sayid to work for them. Eventually, they informed Sayid that Nadia was working in Irvine, California as "a lab tech in a medical testing company". ("The Greater Good")

After rescue of Oceanic Six

Nadia reunites with Sayid. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 1")

Nadia's coffin ("The Shape of Things to Come")

Once Sayid escaped from the Island as one of the Oceanic Six, Nadia finally found him again after the group's first press conference. They tearfully embraced, overjoyed to see each other again. Sayid and Nadia later wed. At some point before or after the wedding, she befriended the other members of the Oceanic Six, attending Hurley's surprise party and Christian Shephard's funeral service. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 1")

Their marriage came to an abrupt end, however, when she was killed in Los Angeles in late October 2005. The circumstantial evidence of a traffic photograph pointed to Ishmael Bakir, an employee of Charles Widmore, as the killer. Sayid was a pallbearer at her funeral in Tikrit, Iraq, five days later. After learning the truth about her death from Ben, Sayid killed Bakir in a fit of rage, and insisted that Ben give him the name of the next employee of Widmore who needed to be killed. ("The Shape of Things to Come")

Trivia

• Irvine, where Sayid was informed that Nadia was located, is a city located in Orange County, California, just south of Los Angeles. Irvine is located right next to the city of Tustin, where Locke worked at a box company.
• During Sayid's search for Nadia, he passed by England. Nadia had spent some time in England, and was saved from a mugger by Charlie there.
• Nadia left Iraq sometime before 1997, since Sayid had been searching for her for 7 years.
• Nadia bought her house before John Locke was paralyzed, no later than approximately 2000.
• Noor means "light" in Arabic.
• Nadia means "tender" and "delicate" in Arabic.
• Nadia shares her first name, Noor, with World War II heroine Noor Inayat Khan, who was also, like Nadia, an insurgent.

Unanswered questions

For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: Nadia/Theories

• Why did Sayid tell Rousseau that Nadia was dead?
• Why was Nadia in England?
• Why was Nadia murdered?
• Was Bakir her killer?