Sayid Hassan Jarrah (Arabic: سعيد حسّان جراح ‎ Sa‘īd Ḥassān Jarrāḥ) is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost, played by Naveen Andrews. The son of an Iraqi war hero from the Iran–Iraq War, Sayid served as a communications officer in the Iraqi Republican Guard and is a skilled radio and mechanical engineer. During the Gulf War, Sayid's base was captured by the Americans.

Since he is the only Iraqi in his squad to speak English, he is forced to ask his superior officer about a missing U.S. pilot. When Sayid learns of a planned attack on his home village, his head capturer, Kelvin Inman gives him a box of torturing tools, and forces Sayid to use them to gain the desired information of the missing pilot, who he learns was executed earlier. At the end of the Gulf War, with Saddam still in power, Sayid is released back into the Republican Guard.

Inman tells him that he now has a valuable gift of being able to gain information, but Sayid swears that he will never torture again. However, he later, through unknown circumstances, becomes a torturer for that Guard. At one point, he learns that the subject of his latest interrogation is to be his childhood friend Nadia.

Sayid falls in love with her, and she provides the impetus for Sayid to begin his road to redemption, and he does not torture her. However, he learns that she will soon be executed, and he helps her escape by shooting his commanding officer and shooting himself in the leg, making it look as though Nadia was responsible. Some time after, Sayid leaves the Republican Guard in order to track down Nadia.

He eventually travels to Paris, where he works as a chef. Some time later, Sayid is taken prisoner and locked in the pantry. A person named Sami recognizes Sayid as the man who tortured his wife with boiling oil, and attempts to beat a confession out of him.

Sayid denies ever meeting his wife; when Sami's wife, Amira, confronts him, Sayid finally admits to torturing her, and tearfully apologizes to her. Sayid is forgiven, and Amira tells Sami that Sayid is not the man who tortured her after all; Sayid is released soon after. Later, Sayid travels to England, where he is picked up by the ASIS and the CIA.

They admit to have been following Sayid's movements, and make him a deal: if Sayid can infiltrate a terrorist cell in Sydney, whose members he is familiar with, and uncover stolen C-4, then they will tell him where Nadia is.

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