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The Palestine/Israel conflict is perhaps the issue of our time, the defining and divisive topic which can make a television debate explode and heat up any conversation in the pub. Naturally, some really tough and painful stories come from Sperlinger's students, making ''Romeo and Juliet in Palestine'' a touching account of these lives rather than simply a collection of detached observations. This is, moreover, where the titular reference to Shakespeare really comes in, since Sperlinger suggests that the power struggles and conflicts at the centre of these seemingly English dramas are only too relevant in the context of this dispute. Readers can make up their own minds whether this comparison works. It is also, perhaps, inevitable that a book like this will tread quite softly across what is obviously very sensitive and complicated political ground. For this reason, Sperlinger is carefully neutral in many ways, a decision which may prove frustrating for readers who take positions on either side of the subject.

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