Abdullah is a 2nd year undergrad student at McGill who made a complete shift from pure sciences in high school to arts to try it out for the "bit". The bit ended up interesting him so much that now he wishes to carry out further research and projects in the topics, conflicts and issues revolving around global affairs and not stay limited to the 19th century theories taught to him in Leacock 132 (and over zoom)!

He draws his inspiration from the Arab Spring protests which occurred without even the slightest bit of  idea from popular theorists and practitioners. This fascination is multiplied in magnitude with the diverse outcomes of the protests with some transitioning into democracies and others sliding back into more authoritarian structures. In the radical future of 2050, Abdullah's project wishes to "Redefine Democracy."

His project involves creating a spectrum of all the democratic nations and institutions to rank their "effectiveness", "efficiency" and "responsiveness" to their citizens and challenging the binary of democracy vs dictatorship that currently exists in the status quo. In doing this, he wishes to analyze the outlier cases that lie on the edge of democracy and gain a better understanding of what attributes such states to being democratic at that point in time. He also ambitiously wants to formulate a new indicator, or reform an old one, to use it towards quantifying democracy and ranking nations based on their performance to see if it changes the spectrum attributed by the current indicators.