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    • The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
    • By: Steve Coll
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 26 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,259 ratings
    • The explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan....

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    • By: Edward Said
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 606 ratings
    • This landmark book, first published in 1978, remains one of the most influential books in the Social Sciences, particularly Ethnic Studies and Postcolonialism....

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    • A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes, and Empires
    • By: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 25 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 288 ratings
    • This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances....

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    • The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers
    • By: Doug Stanton
    • Narrated by: Jack Garrett
    • Length: 16 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,174 ratings
    • 12 Strong is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who secretly entered Afghanistan following 9/11 and rode to war on horses against the Taliban....

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    • Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
    • By: Paul Kriwaczek
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 729 ratings
    • Civilization was born 8,000 years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophisticated urban societies. In the cities that they built, half of human history took place....

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    • The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
    • By: Naomi Klein
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Wiltsie
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,020 ratings
    • The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq....

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    • The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
    • By: Tom Holland
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,397 ratings
    • The story of how their citizens took on the Great King of Persia, and thereby saved not only themselves, but Western civilization as well, is as heart-stopping and fateful as any episode in history....

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    • By: Kenneth E. Bailey
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 315 ratings
    • Beginning with Jesus' birth, Ken Bailey leads you on a kaleidoscopic study of Jesus throughout the four Gospels. Bailey examines the life and ministry of Jesus with attention to the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes, Jesus' relationship to women, and especially Jesus' parables....

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    • The Rise of ISIS
    • By: Joby Warrick
    • Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,776 ratings
    • In a thrilling dramatic narrative, awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread with the unwitting aid of two American presidents....

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    • His Life Based on the Earliest Sources
    • By: Martin Lings
    • Narrated by: Sean Barrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 863 ratings
    • This excellent audiobook is the first of its kind and has been selected by a number of organisations as a worthy introduction to the life of Prophet Muhammad....

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    • Peace Not Apartheid
    • By: Jimmy Carter
    • Narrated by: Jimmy Carter
    • Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 449 ratings
    • The former president, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers an assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel, with dignity and justice for Palestine....

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    • The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
    • By: Tom Holland
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 670 ratings
    • Tom Holland describes how the Arabs emerged to carve out a stupefyingly vast dominion in a matter of decades, overcoming seemingly insuperable odds....

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    • An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
    • By: Stephen Kinzer
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard, Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,548 ratings
    • Half a century ago, the United States overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, whose "crime" was nationalizing the country's oil industry....

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    • A Story of Valor in the Mountains of Afghanistan
    • By: Mitch Weiss, Kevin Maurer
    • Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 626 ratings
    • In a remote enemy-held valley in Afghanistan, a Special Forces team planned to scale a steep mountain to surprise and capture a terrorist leader....

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    • War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
    • By: Scott Anderson
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 23 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 283 ratings
    • A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th century history - the Arab Revolt and the secret “great game” to control the Middle East....

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    • Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
    • By: Lawrence Wright
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Lawrence Wright
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-16-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 323 ratings
    • A gripping day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference, when President Jimmy Carter persuaded Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to sign the first peace treaty in the modern Middle East, one which endures to this day....

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    • The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
    • By: Peter Hopkirk
    • Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
    • Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 719 ratings
    • The Great Game between Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia was fought across desolate terrain from the Caucasus to China, over the lonely passes of the Parmirs and Karakorams....

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    • The Battle for Afghanistan
    • By: William Dalrymple
    • Narrated by: Sagar Arya
    • Length: 20 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • Using a range of forgotten Afghan and Indian sources, William Dalrymple's masterful retelling of Britain's greatest imperial disaster is a powerful parable of colonial ambition and cultural collision, folly and hubris. Return of a King is history at its most urgent and important....

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    • The Case for the Crusades
    • By: Rodney Stark
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 12-22-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 583 ratings
    • In God's Battalions, award-winning author Rodney Stark takes on the long-held view that the Crusades were the first round of European colonialism....

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