Researcher | Middle-East 

Contact : hiba.yasmine.zerrougui@umontreal.ca 

Presentation

Hiba Zerrougui (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at McGill University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of the critical study of political violence, protest movements, everyday life, and the sociology of the state in authoritarian contexts, particularly in Middle Eastern and North African societies. Through a case study of Algeria, her doctoral research focuses on how different forms of violence are embedded in policies and initiatives aimed at providing public goods and services in non-democratic contexts, as well as the ways in which “ordinary people” cope with these violences in their everyday lives. Her four-article thesis is based on the construction of a catalog of nearly 3,000 protest events, in addition to two field studies in Algeria and more than six months of archival research at the United States National Archives (College Park, Maryland). Previously, she held the position of Research Manager at the Canada 150 Research Chair in International Security and Governance at McGill University, under the direction of Professor Jennifer Welsh. From 2021 to 2024, she was also a researcher at the Centre for the Prevention of Radicalization to Violence (CPRMV), where she focused on the rise and popularization of so-called “anti-gender” movements in the Global North and South.