Memoir Middle East

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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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    • 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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    • A Middle East Memoir: Israel, Palestine and Beyond
    • By: John Lyons
    • Narrated by: Peter Houghton
    • Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-24
    • Language: English
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    • Leading Australian journalist John Lyons takes readers on a fascinating personal journey through the wonders and dangers of the Middle East....

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    • How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison
    • By: John Kiriakou
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a 30 month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners....

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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 743 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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    • 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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    • 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 361 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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    • 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 258 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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    • 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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    • The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel
    • By: Dan Ephron
    • Narrated by: Assaf Cohen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 242 ratings
    • A riveting story about the murder that changed a nation: the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin....

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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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    • A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
    • By: Anthony Shadid
    • Narrated by: Neil Shah
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • When Anthony Shadid—one of four New York Times reporters captured in Libya as the region erupted—was freed, he went home, not to Boston, Beirut, or Oklahoma.....

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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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    • 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 14 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....

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    • 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 71 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....

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    • Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerance
    • By: Ian Buruma
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Murder in Amsterdam is a masterpiece of investigative journalism, a book with the intimacy and narrative control of a crime novel and the analytical brilliance for which Buruma is renowned....

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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 1,286 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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