Middle East Literature

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    • By: Elias Khoury
    • Narrated by: Rami Medina
    • Length: 20 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Gate of the Sun: Bab al-Shams is the first true magnum opus of the Palestinian saga. Through the passing of the beloved midwife and matriarch of the Shatila refugee camp outside Beirut, the listener enters a world of displacement, fear, and tenuous hope....

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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: Eloise Jarvis McGraw
    • Narrated by: Charles Carroll
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,308 ratings
    • Ranofer struggles to thwart the plottings of his evil brother, Gebu, so he can become master goldsmith like their father....

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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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    • 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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    • Spice Road, Book 1
    • By: Maiya Ibrahim
    • Narrated by: Krupa Pattani
    • Series: The Spice Road Trilogy, Book 1
    • Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Raised to protect her nation from the monsters lurking in the sands, 16-year-old Imani must fight to find her brother, whose betrayal is now the country's greatest threat. Get swept away by this romantic fantasy....

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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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    • By: Francesco D'Adamo
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • Iqbal, a 13-year-old boy, fights for children's liberation....

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    • Based on a True Story
    • By: Jennifer Roy, Ali Fadhil
    • Narrated by: Neil Shah
    • Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • At the start of 1991, 11-year-old Ali Fadhil was consumed by his love for soccer, video games, and American television shows. Then, on January 17, Iraq's dictator, Saddam Hussein, went to war with 34 nations led by the United States....

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    • By: Elizabeth George Speare
    • Narrated by: Pat Young
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 552 ratings
    • In this Newberry Medal-winning novel, Daniel bar Jamin is fired by only one passion: to avenge his father's death by crucifixion by driving the Roman legions from his land of Israel....

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    • By: Dave Eggers
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 944 ratings
    • The true story of a young Yemeni-American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war....

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    • A Novel
    • By: I.S. Berry
    • Narrated by: Pete Simonelli
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 138 ratings
    • Shane Collins, a world-weary CIA spy, is ready to come in from the cold. Stationed in Bahrain off the coast of Saudi Arabia for his final tour, he has little use for his mission—uncovering Iranian support for the insurgency against the monarchy.

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    • By: Deborah Ellis
    • Narrated by: Monica Delgado
    • Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-21
    • Language: Spanish
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Parvana es una chica afgana que acaba de perder a su padre. Sola, emprende la búsqueda del resto de su familia por un país desolado por...

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    • By: Amos Oz
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 343 ratings
    • Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through....

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    • By: Jasmine Warga
    • Narrated by: Vaneh Assadourian
    • Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 410 ratings
    • Jude never thought she’d be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives....

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    • The Education of a Journalist
    • By: Clarissa Ward
    • Narrated by: Clarissa Ward
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 442 ratings
    • On All Fronts is the unforgettable story of one extraordinary journalist—and of a changing world....

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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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    • By: Aisha Saeed
    • Narrated by: Priya Ayyar
    • Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 327 ratings
    • Life is quiet and ordinary in Amal's Pakistani village, but she has no complaints, and besides, she's busy pursuing her dream of becoming a teacher one day. Her dreams are temporarily dashed when - as the eldest daughter - she must stay home from school to take care of her siblings....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Alan M. Dershowitz
    • Narrated by: Dick Hill
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • A shocking act of terror brings the Middle East to the point of explosion. A young Jewish American lawyer joins the defense team of an arrested but possibly innocent Palestinian....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Werner Sonne, Steve Anderson - translator
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 271 ratings
    • Jerusalem, 1947: Judith, a young Jewish woman who survived Dachau concentration camp, arrives in Palestine after a treacherous journey and seeks refuge with her only remaining relative, her uncle. When Judith learns her uncle has died, she tries to take her own life in despair....

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