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  • Into Iraq cover art

    • Into Iraq

    • By: Michael Palin
    • Narrated by: Michael Palin
    • Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings

    • In March 2022, Michael Palin travelled the length of the River Tigris through Iraq to get a sense of what life is like in a region of the world that once formed the cradle of civilisation, but that in recent times has witnessed turmoil and appalling bloodshed....

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    • Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels

    • By: Kenneth E. Bailey
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 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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    • Arabs

    • A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes, and Empires
    • By: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 25 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 200 ratings

    • This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances....

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    • Orientalism

    • By: Edward Said
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 31-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 193 ratings
    • This landmark book, first published in 1978, remains one of the most influential books in the Social Sciences, particularly Ethnic Studies and Postcolonialism....

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    • Return of a King

    • The Battle for Afghanistan
    • By: William Dalrymple
    • Narrated by: Sagar Arya
    • Length: 20 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 31-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings

    • Using a range of forgotten Afghan and Indian sources, William Dalrymple's masterful retelling of Britain's greatest imperial disaster is a powerful parable of colonial ambition and cultural collision, folly and hubris. Return of a King is history at its most urgent and important....

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    • Target Tehran

    • How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East
    • By: Yonah Jeremy Bob, Ilan Evyatar
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • Yonah Bob and Ilan Evyatar describe how Israel has used cyberwarfare, targeted assassinations, and sabotage of Iranian facilities to great effect, sometimes in cooperation with the United States.

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    • Heretic

    • By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    • Narrated by: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 24-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 396 ratings
    • Ayaan Hirsi Ali crafts a powerful call for an Islamic reformation as the only way to end the current wave of global violence and repression of women....

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    • Ghost on the Throne

    • The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire
    • By: James S. Romm
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 21-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings

    • James Romm, professor of classics at Bard College, brings to life the cutthroat competition and the struggle for control of the Greek world's greatest empire....

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    • Assad or We Burn the Country

    • How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria
    • By: Sam Dagher
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 19 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 82 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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    • Blood, Metal and Dust

    • How Victory Turned into Defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq
    • By: Brigadier (retired) Ben Barry OBE
    • Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
    • Length: 21 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 26-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings

    • From the high-ranking officer who wrote the still-classified British military analysis of the war in Iraq comes the authoritative history of two conflicts which have overshadowed the beginning of the 21st century....

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    • Ibn Khaldun

    • An Intellectual Biography
    • By: Robert Irwin
    • Narrated by: John Telfer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 42 ratings

    • In this groundbreaking intellectual biography, Robert Irwin provides the definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the Muqaddima....

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    • Princess

    • A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
    • By: Jean Sasson
    • Narrated by: Catherine Byers
    • Series: Princess (Sasson), Book 1
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 376 ratings
    • Princess describes the life of Princess Sultana Al Sa'ud, a princess in the royal house of Saudi Arabia.

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    • Thirteen Days in September

    • Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
    • By: Lawrence Wright
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Lawrence Wright
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 16-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 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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    • The Last Shah

    • America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty
    • By: Ray Takeyh
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 28-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • Offering a new view of one of America's most important, infamously strained, and widely misunderstood relationships of the postwar era, this book tells the history of America and Iran from the time the last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was placed on the throne....

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    • Our Man in the Middle East

    • First-Hand Accounts from the Front Line
    • By: Jeremy Bowen
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Bowen
    • Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings

    • BBC Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen presents a personal history of the Middle East. Over these 25 programmes, Jeremy reflects on the present and the past of the Middle East, after reporting from the region for more than a quarter of a century....

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    • Uruk

    • The History and Legacy of the Ancient World's First Major City
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Ken Teutsch
    • Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
    • Release date: 19-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • For nearly 5,000 years, the sands of the Iraqi desert have held the remains of the oldest known civilization: the Sumerians....

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    • Walking Free

    • By: Molly McCully Brown
    • Narrated by: Rupert Farley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • The extraordinary true story of a young man who fled war-torn Iraq, came to Australia as a refugee by boat, survived the Australian detention centre and went on to become a pioneering surgeon....

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    • 12 Strong

    • The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers
    • By: Doug Stanton
    • Narrated by: Jack Garrett
    • Length: 16 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • 12 Strong is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who secretly entered Afghanistan following 9/11 and rode to war on horses against the Taliban....

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    • The Life and Legacy of Muhammad

    • By: Maria Dakake, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Maria Dakake
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings

    • Join Maria Dakake of George Mason University for a riveting exploration of Islam’s founding prophet. The Life and Legacy of Muhammad leads you through the earliest historical accounts of the prophet’s life and personality....

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