The intellectual focus of this book consists of reading Israeli and Palestinian theatrical literary responses to key events in the history of Israel-Palestine alongside each other. This serves to expose profoundly the incommensurability of the power-divided narratives generated by colonisation. The wide-ranging study brings to light over-looked sources and further attends to international responses to the conflict. It is a ground-breaking work of crucial timely relevance, and also very moving in its treatment of theatre as an archive of emotions.

Caroline Rooney, Professor Emeritus of African and Middle-Eastern Studies, University of Kent, UK

Palestinian cultural production continues to require intelligent and appropriate analysis. Azza Harras contributes effectively to that analysis, firstly in offering a discussion of one of the least-examined cultural areas - the theatre - and secondly in doing so via a study which productively combines and contrasts Palestinian and Israeli plays covering the same events or historical periods, as well as works from the UK and the US exploring the conflict in Palestine. The fact that her book focuses on a number of less well-known, even untranslated, pieces is an added benefit.

Patrick Williams, Professor, Nottingham Trent University, UK