Yasmina Abouzzohour is an Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer at the Institute for the Transregional Study at Princeton University. Previously, she served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Middle East Initiative at Harvard University. Abouzzohour received her Ph.D. at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford and her B.A., with honors, at the Department of Political Science and the Department of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University.

Abouzzohour is a comparative political scientist specializing in trust in the military and state-society relations across regime types, with particular emphasis on the Arab monarchies and Maghreb states. Her research leverages public opinion data, cross-national datasets, and primary sources to delve into the interplay between societal trust, state policies, and military forces in non-democratic contexts. Much of her teaching lies at the juncture of comparative politics and political economy. At Princeton, she taught courses on the economic and political development of the Middle East and North Africa.

In her ongoing projects, Abouzzohour analyzes survey data to explore the determinants and implications of heightened public trust in the military in non-democratic contexts and Twitter data to examine public perception of newly imposed taxes in rentier states. Her current book project, Why Does God Save the King? How Monarchies Endure and Evolve in the Middle East and North Africa, employs a range of research methods to investigate the long-term durability of monarchical institutions. 

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, and the Project on Middle East Political Science, Harvard University, Princeton University, among others.