In the early 1960s, in the city of Haifa, Israel, young Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish fell in love with a Jewish Israeli dancer, Tamar Ben Ami. Although their love deepened, it did not last long. Darwish later transformed the pain and political division of their relationship into a poignant poem – 'Rita and the Rifle'.Over time, this poem became part of the collective memory of the Arab world: 'Between Rita and my eyes / there is a rifle. / And whoever knows Rita, / prays on his knees / for the miracle in those eyes like honey.'From Cairo to Amman...