Dr. Yasmina Abouzzohour is a Research Scholar and Lecturer in Politics at Princeton University. Previously, she was a Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Middle East Initiative and an Instructor in Politics at the University of Oxford.

Dr. Abouzzohour is a comparative political scientist specializing in trust in the military, military-society relations, and public opinion in the Middle East and North Africa. Her research has appeared in academic journals, edited volumes, and policy platforms, including publications on trust in the military (Journal of North African Studies, 2023), regime behavior (Middle East Journal, 2022), and monarchical resilience (Order from Chaos, 2022). She has been featured in BBC, the Washington Post, Deutsche Welle, and the Financial Times.

Her work has been supported by the American Political Science Association, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Andrew Mellon Fund, the University of Oxford, the American Institute for Maghrib Studies, the Project on Middle East Political Science, Harvard University, and Princeton University, among others.

In addition to her academic work, she has advised government agencies and international organizations, including the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the European Commission, and the United Kingdom Foreign Office. She previously directed the North Africa desk at Oxford Analytica, where she oversaw risk assessments and provided strategic insights on economic governance and regional security.

At Princeton, she teaches courses on political and economic development and is completing a book on monarchical resilience, analyzing the interactions between monarchical institutions and societal groups during periods of upheaval.