CHENINI, Tunisia — As night settled
on the mountain cave where she lives with her mother and her last remaining
younger sibling, Halima Najjar looked out at her dwindling village — a few
dozen specks of light clinging to the dimming mountainside — and wondered if
there would be more to her life one day.
The prospects seemed thin.
On this high, sun-bronzed crag deep in
Tunisia’s southern…