Camille Abescat holds a PhD in political science (Sciences Po - CERI) and is a postdoctoral researcher in the MENA-PERC ERC project at the Scuola Normale Superiore Sant'Anna (DIRPOLIS). Her doctoral dissertation, supervised by Éric Verdeil (CERI-Sciences Po) and Élise Massicard (CNRS/CERI-Sciences Po), focused on the renewal of parliamentary roles and registers of political legitimization in Jordan. Her current research focuses on the sociology of parliaments, political work, electoral processes and political parties in Jordan and Tunisia.

Camille Abescat is also a research fellow in the North Africa-Middle East program of Noria Research, and coordinator of the Noria's editorial team. As such, she co-directs the production of the podcast Sous Terrain.

She is also a graduate of the University of Jordan in classical Arabic and of IFPO in classical and dialectal Arabic.