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    • 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 256 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....

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    • 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 742 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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    • 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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    • 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 359 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....

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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 622 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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    • 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 46 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....

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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 877 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....

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    • 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 103 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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    • 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 48 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....

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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 87 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....

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    • 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 56 ratings
    • The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Zealot recounts the spellbinding tale of an unrecognized American martyr for democracy....

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    • 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 33 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?

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    • The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service
    • By: Michael Bar-Zohar, Nissim Mishal
    • Narrated by: Benjamin Isaac
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,283 ratings
    • Authors MichaelBar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal take us behind the closed curtain with riveting, eye-opening, boots-on-the-ground accounts of the most dangerous, most crucial missions....

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    • 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 88 ratings
    • In this masterly work of synthesis, Peter Mansfield explores two centuries of history in the Middle East...

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    • By: Sandy Tolan
    • Narrated by: Sandy Tolan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 687 ratings
    • In 1967, not long after the Six-Day War, three young Arab men ventured into the town of Ramle, in what is now Jewish Israel....

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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 314 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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    • A Reporter's Story: Black September and the Yom Kippur War
    • By: Wilborn Hampton
    • Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
    • Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In War in the Middle East, the veteran journalist offers a fascinating account of his early 1970s reports from the volatile desert region amidst Black September and the Yom Kippur War....

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    • My Greatest Untold Missions and the Art of Being a Sniper
    • By: Nicholas Irving, Gary Brozek
    • Narrated by: Jeff Gurner
    • Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,832 ratings
    • Way of the Reaper is a step-by-step accounting of how a sniper works, through the lens of Irving's 10 most significant kills - none of which have been told before....

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