Writers Thorvald Steen and Tariq Ali started their cooperation after the Wergeland Conference Poet and Activist at the House of Literature in 2008. Both having previously written fiction about the historical figure Saladin, together, they set out to dramatize the meeting between East and West in the time of Crusades, personified by the Sultan Saladin and the British King, Richard the Lionheart. On the eve of the original performance, they will elaborate on the origin of the play Desert Storms.