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    • A New History of the Ancient Near East
    • By: Amanda H. Podany
    • Narrated by: Amanda H. Podany
    • Length: 18 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • In this sweeping history of the ancient Near East, Amanda Podany takes listeners on a gripping journey from the creation of the world's first cities to the conquests of Alexander the Great....

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    • A History of the World through Islamic Eyes
    • By: Tamim Ansary
    • Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,964 ratings
    • Until about 1800, the West and the Islamic realm were like two adjacent, parallel universes, each assuming itself to be the center of the world while ignoring the other....

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    • Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
    • By: Marc David Baer
    • Narrated by: Jamie Parker
    • Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 172 ratings
    • This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West....

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    • The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
    • By: Roger Crowley
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,041 ratings
    • The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley's listenable and comprehensive account of the battle between Mehmed II....

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    • Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West
    • By: Raymond Ibrahim, Victor Davis Hanson - foreword
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 534 ratings
    • This sweeping history of the often-violent conflict between Islam and the West sheds a revealing light on current hostilities....

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    • The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
    • By: David Fromkin
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 472 ratings
    • The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts are rooted in the region's political inheritance. David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics....

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    • The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
    • By: Judith Herrin
    • Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
    • Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism—gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization....

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    • The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
    • By: Lars Brownworth
    • Narrated by: Lars Brownworth
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,876 ratings
    • Filled with unforgettable stories of emperors, generals, and religious patriarchs, as well as fascinating glimpses into the life of the ordinary citizen, Lost to the West reveals how much we owe to the Byzantine Empire that was the equal of any in its achievements, appetites, and enduring legacy....

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    • City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World
    • By: Thomas F. Madden
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 283 ratings
    • For more than two millennia, Istanbul has stood at the crossroads of the world, perched at the very tip of Europe, gazing across the shores of Asia....

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    • A New History
    • By: Professor Thomas F. Madden
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 620 ratings
    • An extraordinary chronicle of Venice, its people, and its grandeur Thomas Madden’s majestic, sprawling history of Venice is the first full portrait of the city in English in almost thirty years....

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    • A History
    • By: Eugene Rogan
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 27 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 661 ratings
    • In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on Arab sources and texts to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context....

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    • Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe
    • By: John Julius Norwich
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • John Julius Norwich has crafted a big, bold tapestry of the early 16th century, when Europe and the Middle East were overshadowed by a quartet of legendary rulers....

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    • Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe
    • By: Andrew Wheatcroft
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • A gripping work by a master historian, The Enemy at the Gate offers a timely examination of an epic clash of civilizations....

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    • Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past
    • By: Firas Alkhateeb
    • Narrated by: Neil Shah
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social, and political forces in history. Yet many of the contributions of Muslim thinkers, scientists, and theologians have been occluded. This book rescues from oblivion some of these personalities and institutions....

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    • The Great War in the Middle East
    • By: Eugene Rogan
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,519 ratings
    • In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story....

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    • Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
    • By: Alan Mikhail
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 227 ratings
    • Long neglected in world history, the Ottoman Empire was a hub of intellectual fervor, geopolitical power, and enlightened pluralistic rule. At the height of their authority in the 16th century, the Ottomans controlled more territory and ruled over more people than any world power....

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    • War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923
    • By: Sean McMeekin
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 19 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 165 ratings
    • An astonishing retelling of 20th-century history from the Ottoman perspective, delivering profound new insights into World War I and the contemporary Middle East....

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    • How Britain Made the Middle East
    • By: Walter Reid
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Working from both primary and secondary sources, Walter Reid explores Britain's role in the creation of the modern Middle East and the rise of Zionism from the early years of the twentieth century to 1948....

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    • Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924
    • By: Benny Morris, Dror Ze'evi, Claire Bloom
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 21 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • A reappraisal of the giant massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire and then the Turkish Republic against their Christian minorities from 1894 to 1924....

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