When regimes implode and power vacuums develop, one of the few national infrastructures left intact are those of religious orders. The more extreme the faction, the more zealously they seek to exploit ignorance and fill the void with their own influence. Recognizing knowledge is the enemy of ignorance, Lotfi Maktouf landed in Tunisia just days after the revolution that ignited the Arab Spring with one objective : combating extremism with the mist effective weapon available… Education.