Gazing out from her balcony in the hills of Amioun, Lebanon, Maysaa Rizk felt lost. She was a teenage girl with big dreams in a place where girls weren’t supposed to dream of much beyond conventional, traditional careers. She wanted something more, something that would lift her out of financial hardship and enable her to make other people’s lives easier. But what? And how? As she brooded, staring over the olive fields that ring her town, the silvery trees began to shudder.