Yasmina Abouzzohour

Yasmina Abouzzohour is a nonresident fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs and a research scholar and lecturer in Politics at Princeton University, where she teaches courses on political and economic development. She is also a senior nonresident fellow at the Moroccan Institute for Policy Analysis and previously served as a research fellow at Harvard University’s Middle East Initiative.

A comparative political scientist specializing in public opinion and military-society relations, Abouzzohour works on key issues of governance and development in the Middle East and North Africa. Her current projects explore trust in the military, public confidence in governance, and attitudes toward policy reforms. At Princeton, she is completing a book on monarchical resilience, analyzing the interactions between monarchical institutions and societal groups during periods of upheaval. Her work has received awards from the American Political Science Association, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Andrew Mellon Fund.

Her contributions to public policy include advising government agencies and international organizations, including the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, the European Commission, and the United Kingdom Foreign Office. At Oxford Analytica, she directed the North Africa desk, overseeing risk assessments and providing strategic insights on economic governance and regional security.

Her research has appeared in academic journals, edited volumes, and policy platforms. Most recently, she published on trust in the military (Journal of North African Studies, 2023), regime behavior (Middle East Journal, 2022), and monarchical resilience (Order from Chaos, 2022). Abouzzohour has also been featured in media outlets such as the BBC, the Washington Post, Deutsche Welle, and the Financial Times.