A visiting fellow at Brookings, Abouzzohour holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Oxford where she taught comparative politics, international relations, and economic governance. Her research focuses on authoritarian persistence and transition, strategic regime behavior and interactions with opposition movements, and mixed methods research. She is currently writing a book on regime survival in MENA monarchies and completing several projects on the politics and economy of North African states. Abouzzohour previously worked as a Political Risk Analyst at Oxford Analytica and holds a B.A. (Hons) in Political Science from Columbia University.
Yasmina Abouzzohour2 September 2021
Many countries across the Middle East and North Africa, or MENA, region have faced critical challenges in ensuring the effective and equitable vaccination of their citizens against COVID-19. With a few exceptions, like Morocco, Israel and several Gulf states, countries in the region have faced difficulties in securing sufficient doses due to logistical constraints, poor planning and vaccine hesitancy.
Yasmina Abouzzohour23 June 2021
Covid-19 in the Middle East: Regional Impact and Future Recovery
Yasmina Abouzzohour23 June 2021
SANA Expert Briefing series—Webinar 4: Morocco's Foreign Policy
Yasmina Abouzzohour1 June 2021
Vaccine diplomacy and the geopolitics of influence
Yasmina Abouzzohour1 April 2021
The last 12 months of battling the coronavirus pandemic have highlighted significant gaps that must be addressed in the Moroccan, Jordanian, and Tunisian public health sectors.
Yasmina Abouzzohour24 March 2021
These monarchies' unfulfilled unfulfilled promises of reform and development will catch up with them, and they will have to adapt the ways in which they interact with opposition actors and their wider populations, especially as further and greater contestation is imminent.
Yasmina Abouzzohour25 February 2021
As economic hardship and political infighting persist in debt-laden Tunisia, the EU should raise its concerns about the escalation of violence in the country and work to prevent it from sliding back into repression
Yasmina Abouzzohour10 February 2021
Morocco carefully navigated the Gulf crisis to protect its diplomatic and financial interests and it stands to benefit from its partial resolution
Yasmina Abouzzohour20 January 2021
Yasmina Abouzzohour : “Pour le Maroc, le rapprochement dans le Golfe aura surtout des bénéfices économiques”
Yasmina Abouzzohour13 January 2021
Morocco is the clearest winner, and Algeria may be open to a rapprochement.
