Biography Middle East

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    • The Biography
    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 25 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 913 ratings
    • Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilizations....

    Regular price: $29.25

    • By: Peter Mansfield
    • Narrated by: Richard Brown
    • Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-28-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • In this masterly work of synthesis, Peter Mansfield explores two centuries of history in the Middle East...

    Regular price: $24.04

    • A Son's Search For His Family's Past
    • By: Ariel Sabar
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly 3,000 years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
    • By: Queen Noor
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 160 ratings
    • When Lisa Najeeb Halaby was 26, her father introduced her to King Hussein of Jordan. Within a year, she became his fourth wife....

    Regular price: $23.04

    • 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 238 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The Desert Warrior Who Created the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
    • By: Michael Darlow, Barbara Bray
    • Narrated by: Brian Bascle
    • Length: 21 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 367 ratings
    • Ibn Saud grew to manhood living the harsh traditional life of the desert nomad, a life that had changed little since the days of Abraham....

    Regular price: $34.94

    • 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 648 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....

    Regular price: $15.47

    • A Report on the Banality of Evil
    • By: Hannah Arendt
    • Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 767 ratings
    • Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared in The New Yorker in 1963....

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    • Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East
    • By: Fawaz A. Gerges
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 18 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • Fawaz Gerges, one of the world's leading authorities on the Middle East, tells how the clash between pan-Arab nationalism and pan-Islamism has shaped the history of the region from the 1920s to the present....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • The Life of David Ben-Gurion
    • By: Tom Segev, Haim Watzman - translator
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 31 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • In this definitive biography, Israel's leading journalist-historian, Tom Segev, uses large amounts of previously unreleased archival material to give an original, nuanced account, transcending the myths and legends that have accreted around Ben-Gurion....

    Regular price: $30.09

    • Nasir al-Din Shah and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896
    • By: Abbas Amanat
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In this book-the first in English about Nasir al-Din Shah, Abbas Amanat gives us both a biography of the man and an analysis of the institution of monarchy in modern Iran....

    Regular price: $30.09

    • Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion
    • By: Robert Spencer
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,173 ratings
    • In The Truth about Muhammad, New York Times best-selling author and Islam expert Robert Spencer offers an honest and telling portrait of the founder of Islam....

    Regular price: $14.58

    • The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
    • By: Lesley Hazleton
    • Narrated by: Lesley Hazleton
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,060 ratings
    • Combining meticulous research with compelling storytelling, After the Prophet explores the volatile intersections of religion and politics, psychology and culture, and history and current events. It is an indispensable guide to the depth and power of the Shia-Sunni split.

    Regular price: $17.16

    • Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
    • By: Matti Friedman
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 280 ratings
    • Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff - but it's all true....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville
    • By: Reza Aslan
    • Narrated by: Reza Aslan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Zealot recounts the spellbinding tale of an unrecognized American martyr for democracy....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The Enthralling Autobiography of the Top-Scoring Israel Air Force Ace of Aces
    • By: Brigadier General Giora Even-Epstein
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • For more than 30 years, Giora Even-Epstein flew fighters for the Israel Air Force. This fast-moving autobiography details his experiences particularly in the intense conflicts of 1967, the Six Day War, and 1973, the Yom Kippur War....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • The Biography – A History of the Middle East
    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 25 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilisations. How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the 'centre of the world' and now the key to peace in the Middle East?

    Regular price: $36.30

    • Dispatches from a Precarious State
    • By: Declan Walsh
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times's most distinguished international correspondents. His portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals....

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