Matt Gordner is a Tunis-based doctoral student in the University of Toronto’s Department of Political Science and a 2016-2017 American Political Science Association (APSA) Middle East and North Africa Civil Society Fellow specializing in comparative and development politics with a regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa. His work, published in a number of academic journals, including Middle East Topic and Arguments (META); In-Spire: Journal of Law, Politics, and Societies; Illumine: Journal of the Centre for the Study of Religion; and the U.N.-sponsored Global Education Magazine, examines the politics of democratization and authoritarianism, social movements, civil society activism, and youth empowerment. A Trudeau Scholarship (2012-2016) and a University of Toronto Graduate Award of Excellence (2015) supported his research in this volume.