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Weeks before he was killed by an Israeli airstrike, Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer shared his 2011 poem If I Must Die. The persona then invites readers to make and fly white kites in his honor, so that a child in Gaza, who only knows hardship, “sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above/and thinks for a moment an angel is there/bringing back love.” Since his death in Northern Gaza on Dec. 6, his words have taken on new significance—not least for how they capture the...

The poems of Palestinian greats such as Refaat Alareer and Mahmoud Darwish become tools of resistance during the Israel-Hamas war.

Of these muslim groups and took back jerusalem from the crusaders. and now whats going to happen to all these muslim groups that saladin united? >> his army is passed onto his warring sons, and so his family descends into internal warfare. when saladin die, muslim unity dies with him. >> i dont think the struggle between saladin and richard was ever a personal struggle. it was always a struggle for what jerusalem represents and what also the role as would-be liberators of jerusalem entail. >> wi...

Chest and ultimately killed. richard was a great king who lived by the sword and died by the sword. >> solodyn is able to return to damascus where hes given a hero welcome. he spent years and years fighting, physically and mentally hes shattered and sisix or seven months solodyn came home, solodyn fell ill. this was a man who united all of these muslim roots and took back jerusalem from crusaders. and now whats going to happen to all these muslim groups that solodyn united? >> his army is passed...

So, richard was a great king who lived by the sword and died by the sword. >> at the end of the third crusade, saladin is able to return to demascus where he is given a heros welcome. but he has spent years and years fighting. physically and mentally he is shattered. and just six or seven months after richard has gone home, saladin falls ill. on the fourth of march, 1193, the great hero of the near east dies. >> this was a man who united all of these muslim groups and took back jerusalem from th...