Middle East Politics

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    • The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
    • By: David Fromkin
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 505 ratings
    • The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts are rooted in the region's political inheritance. David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics....

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    • Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry that Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
    • By: Kim Ghattas
    • Narrated by: Kim Ghattas, Nan McNamara
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 468 ratings
    • Kim Ghattas delivers a gripping account of the largely unexplored story of the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran, born from the sparks of the 1979 Iranian revolution and fueled by American policy....

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    • Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
    • By: Ian Black
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 20 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • In Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent over three decades covering events in the Middle East and is currently a fellow at the London School of Economics, offers a major new history of the Arab-Zionist conflict from 1917 to today....

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    • An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
    • By: Stephen Kinzer
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard, Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,576 ratings
    • Half a century ago, the United States overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, whose "crime" was nationalizing the country's oil industry....

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    • A History
    • By: Eugene Rogan
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 27 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 674 ratings
    • In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on Arab sources and texts to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context....

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    • By: Thomas L. Friedman
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 25 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Rich with anecdote, history, analysis, and autobiography, From Beirut to Jerusalem will continue to shape how we see the Middle East for many years to come.

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    • By: Peter Beinart
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • A dramatic shift is taking place in Israel and America. In Israel, the deepening occupation of the West Bank is putting Israeli democracy at risk....

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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 271 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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    • Zones of Violence
    • By: Laura Robson
    • Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-24
    • Language: English
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    • Laura Robson uses a framework of mass violence to explain the emergence of a dystopian politics of identity across the Eastern Mediterranean in the modern era and to illuminate the contemporary breakdown of the state from Syria to Iraq to Israel.

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    • A History of the Islamic Republic
    • By: Michael Axworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 19 hrs
    • Release date: 07-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Axworthy takes listeners through the major periods in Iranian history over the last 30 years: the overthrow of the old regime and the creation of the new one; the Iran-Iraq war; the reconstruction era following the war; the reformist wave led by Mohammed Khatami; and the present day....

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    • How Britain Made the Middle East
    • By: Walter Reid
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Working from both primary and secondary sources, Walter Reid explores Britain's role in the creation of the modern Middle East and the rise of Zionism from the early years of the twentieth century to 1948....

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    • How the Abbottabad Raid Revealed the Truth About Al-Qaeda, Its Leader, and His Family
    • By: Nelly Lahoud
    • Narrated by: Lameece Issaq
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • An inside look at al-Qaeda from 9/11 to the death of its founder—told through the words of Bin Laden and his closest circle....

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    • Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, Revised Edition
    • By: David K. Shipler
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 27 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • In this monumental Pulitzer Prize-winning work, revised in 2002, David Shipler delves into the origins of prejudices that have been intensified by war, terrorism, and nationalism....

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    • Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
    • By: Max Blumenthal
    • Narrated by: Richard Powers
    • Length: 22 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 174 ratings
    • Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey through the badlands and high roads of Israel-Palestine, painting a startling portrait of Israeli society under the siege of increasingly authoritarian politics....

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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 107 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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    • England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour
    • By: Barbara W. Tuchman
    • Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 441 ratings
    • Two-time Pulitzer Prize - winning historian Barbara Tuchman explores the complex relationship of Britain to Palestine that led to the founding of the modern Jewish state....

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    • Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924
    • By: Benny Morris, Dror Ze'evi, Claire Bloom
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 21 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • A reappraisal of the giant massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire and then the Turkish Republic against their Christian minorities from 1894 to 1924....

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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 762 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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    • Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
    • By: Raja Shehadeh
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Amid the many and varied tragedies of the Middle East, the loss of a simple pleasure such as the ability to roam the countryside at will may seem a minor matter. But in Palestinian Walks, Raja Shehadeh’s elegy for his lost footpaths becomes a heartbreaking metaphor....

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