Middle East Geopolitics

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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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    • The Limits of Progressive Politics
    • By: Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 200 ratings
    • Scholar and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill and Israel-Palestine expert Mitchell Plitnick spotlight how holding fast to one-sided and unwaveringly pro-Israel policies reflects the truth-bending grip of authoritarianism on both Israel and the United States....

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    • Making Sense of the Most Dangerous and Complicated Region on Earth
    • By: Avi Melamed
    • Narrated by: Vikas Adam
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • Israeli intelligence analyst Avi Melamed has spent more than 30 years interpreting Middle East affairs. His long-awaited Inside the Middle East challenges accepted perceptions....

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    • How al-Qaeda Is Winning the War on Terror
    • By: Rob Schultheis
    • Narrated by: Elijah Alexander
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • An in-depth look at why America is losing the War on Terror and what we should do if we really want to defeat Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda....

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    • The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process
    • By: Robert Spencer
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 265 ratings
    • The Palestinian Delusion is unique in situating the Israeli/Palestinian conflict within the context of the global jihad that has found renewed impetus in the latter portion of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st....

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    • The Hidden Story of Israel's Assaults on Gaza
    • By: Norman G. Finkelstein
    • Narrated by: Gary Dana
    • Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • In the past five years, Israel has mounted three major assaults on the 1.8 million Palestinians trapped behind its blockade of the Gaza Strip....

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    • Two Whistleblowers’ Stories of Torture, Terror, Secret Wars, and CIA Lies
    • By: John Kiriakou, Joseph Hickman
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • The Convenient Terrorist is the definitive inside account of the capture, torture, and detention of Abu Zubaydah, the first “high-value target” captured by the CIA after 9/11....

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    • How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East
    • By: Andrew Scott Cooper
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 19 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 383 ratings
    • Struggling with a recession... European nations at risk of defaulting on their loans... A possible global financial crisis. It happened before, in the 1970s....

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    • Spy Games, Bank Battles, and the Secret Deals That Reshaped the Middle East
    • By: Jay Solomon
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 312 ratings
    • From Qasem Soleimani to the nuclear deal, a deeply reported exploration of Iran’s decades-long power struggle with the United States - in the tradition of Steve Coll’s Ghost Wars and Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower....

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    • America's End in Afghanistan
    • By: Elliot Ackerman
    • Narrated by: Elliot Ackerman
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
    • Elliot Ackerman left the American military ten years ago, but his time in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Marines and later as a CIA paramilitary officer marked him indelibly....

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    • How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria
    • By: Sam Dagher
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 19 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 264 ratings
    • From a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist specializing in the Middle East, this groundbreaking account of the Syrian Civil War reveals the never-before-published true story of a 21st-century humanitarian disaster....

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    • Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
    • By: Nicholas Morton
    • Narrated by: Nick Biadon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • For centuries, the Crusades have been central to the story of the medieval Near East, but these religious wars are only part of the region's complex history. As The Mongol Storm reveals, during the same era the Near East was utterly remade by another series of wars: the Mongol invasions....

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    • A True Story of Courage and Sacrifice During the Collapse of Afghanistan
    • By: Mitchell Zuckoff
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • When the U.S. began its withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Afghan Army instantly collapsed, Homeira Qaderi was marked for death at the hands of the Taliban....

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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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    • 10 Conflicts That Explain the New Middle East
    • By: Christopher Phillips
    • Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Christopher Phillips explores geopolitical rivalries in the Middle East, and the major external powers vying for influence: Russia, China, the European Union, and the United States.

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    • An Arabian Family in the American Century
    • By: Steve Coll
    • Narrated by: Erik Singer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the national best seller Ghost Wars, Steve Coll presents the story of the Bin Laden family's rise to power and privilege....

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    • Among the Women of ISIS
    • By: Azadeh Moaveni
    • Narrated by: Sarah Agha
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • A gripping account of 13 women who joined, endured, and, in some cases, escaped life in the Islamic State - based on years of immersive reporting by a Pulitzer Prize finalist....

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    • How Washington Sold Our Soul For Saudi Crude
    • By: Robert Baer
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 326 ratings
    • Former CIA operative Robert Baer examines the dangers behind America's collaboration with Saudi Arabia....

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    • Uncovering the Mystery of a Lost Spy and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil
    • By: Charlotte Dennett
    • Narrated by: Tia Rider
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Investigative Journalist Charlotte Dennett digs into her father’s counterintelligence work, which pitted him against America’s wartime allies - the British, the French, and the Russians - in a covert battle for geopolitical and economic influence in the Middle East....

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