Having graduated from high school this year, 18-year-old Zeina Abdallah is preparing to start university. That may seem unremarkable, but it makes her the exception in Tripoli’s Jabal Mohsen neighborhood, a low-income area that just a few years ago was at war with the adjacent area of Bab al-Tabbaneh. “When we were in the ninth grade, we went different ways,” Abdallah said of her childhood friends, recalling the transition from ...