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The Lemon Tree
- By: Sandy Tolan
- Narrated by: Sandy Tolan
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
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In 1967, not long after the Six-Day War, three young Arab men ventured into the town of Ramle, in what is now Jewish Israel....
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Powerfully moving
- By Saskia on 28-10-15
By: Sandy Tolan
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Nine Lives
- By: Aimen Dean, Tim Lister, Paul Cruickshank
- Narrated by: Assaf Cohen
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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As one of al-Qaeda's most respected bomb-makers, Aimen Dean rubbed shoulders with the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden himself. As a double agent at the heart of al-Qaeda's chemical weapons program, he foiled attacks on civilians and saved countless lives....
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Exceptional first hand account of the Jihad ideology
- By Richard on 17-03-19
By: Aimen Dean, and others
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Heretic
- By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Narrated by: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Everybody needs to hear this
- By Lucy Abrahams on 22-11-15
By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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A Concise History of the Middle East, Ninth Edition
- By: Arthur Goldschmidt Jr., Lawrence Davidson
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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The ninth edition of this widely acclaimed text has been extensively revised to reflect the latest scholarship and the most recent events in the Middle East....
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clear, comprehensive and informative
- By Margaret on 08-01-11
By: Arthur Goldschmidt Jr., and others
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Balcony over Jerusalem
- A Middle East Memoir: Israel, Palestine and Beyond
- By: John Lyons
- Narrated by: Peter Houghton
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
By: John Lyons
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Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Martin Bunton
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The conflict between Palestine and Israel is one of the most highly publicized and bitter struggles in history. In this accessible and stimulating Very Short Introduction, Martin Bunton clearly explains the history of the problem, a modern territorial contest between two nations....
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Well balanced overview of the history of this troubled area
- By Johann Muller on 20-02-24
By: Martin Bunton
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The Lemon Tree
- By: Sandy Tolan
- Narrated by: Sandy Tolan
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1967, not long after the Six-Day War, three young Arab men ventured into the town of Ramle, in what is now Jewish Israel....
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Powerfully moving
- By Saskia on 28-10-15
By: Sandy Tolan
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Nine Lives
- By: Aimen Dean, Tim Lister, Paul Cruickshank
- Narrated by: Assaf Cohen
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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As one of al-Qaeda's most respected bomb-makers, Aimen Dean rubbed shoulders with the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden himself. As a double agent at the heart of al-Qaeda's chemical weapons program, he foiled attacks on civilians and saved countless lives....
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Exceptional first hand account of the Jihad ideology
- By Richard on 17-03-19
By: Aimen Dean, and others
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Heretic
- By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Narrated by: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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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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Everybody needs to hear this
- By Lucy Abrahams on 22-11-15
By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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A Concise History of the Middle East, Ninth Edition
- By: Arthur Goldschmidt Jr., Lawrence Davidson
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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The ninth edition of this widely acclaimed text has been extensively revised to reflect the latest scholarship and the most recent events in the Middle East....
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clear, comprehensive and informative
- By Margaret on 08-01-11
By: Arthur Goldschmidt Jr., and others
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Balcony over Jerusalem
- A Middle East Memoir: Israel, Palestine and Beyond
- By: John Lyons
- Narrated by: Peter Houghton
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
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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....
By: John Lyons
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Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Martin Bunton
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The conflict between Palestine and Israel is one of the most highly publicized and bitter struggles in history. In this accessible and stimulating Very Short Introduction, Martin Bunton clearly explains the history of the problem, a modern territorial contest between two nations....
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Well balanced overview of the history of this troubled area
- By Johann Muller on 20-02-24
By: Martin Bunton
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Vision or Mirage
- Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads
- By: David Rundell
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
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David Rundell - one of America's foremost experts on Saudi Arabia - explains how the country has been stable for so long, why it is less so today, and what is most likely to happen in the future....
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Book for those who seeking to understand
- By Jiri on 29-03-24
By: David Rundell
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Wem gehört das Heilige Land?
- Die Wurzeln des Streits zwischen Juden und Arabern
- By: Michael Wolffsohn
- Narrated by: Alexander Gamnitzer
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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Die Frage, wem das Heilige Land gehört, ist heute aktueller denn je. Die Debatten zu diesem Thema sind oft von Ignoranz und starken...
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The Yemen Model
- Why U.S. Policy Has Failed in the Middle East
- By: Alexandra Stark
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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A close look at failed US policies in the Middle East, offering a fresh perspective on how best to reorient goals in the region.
By: Alexandra Stark
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The Afghanistan Papers
- A Secret History of the War
- By: Craig Whitlock, The Washington Post
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had near-unanimous public support. At first, the goals were straightforward and clear: Defeat al-Qaeda and prevent a repeat of 9/11....
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Breathtaking ...
- By C. Doyle on 09-09-21
By: Craig Whitlock, and others
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Arab and Jew
- Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, Revised Edition
- By: David K. Shipler
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 27 hrs and 54 mins
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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....
By: David K. Shipler
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Bible and Sword
- England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour
- By: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
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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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Terrible narrator.
- By Armin Powalka on 17-01-21
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Killing a King
- The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel
- By: Dan Ephron
- Narrated by: Assaf Cohen
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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A riveting story about the murder that changed a nation: the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin....
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Unbiased and refreshing
- By Melanie Preston Lewis on 19-10-21
By: Dan Ephron
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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
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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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excellent overview of the Syrian wat
- By D. Dunne on 24-03-20
By: Sam Dagher
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City of Death
- Humanitarian Warriors in the Battle of Mosul
- By: Ephraim Mattos, Scott McEwen
- Narrated by: Ephraim Mattos
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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This is the true story of Ephraim Mattos, a former US Navy SEAL, and what he witnessed while volunteering as a frontline combat medic during the historic battle to retake Mosul from ISIS - the deadliest urban combat the world has seen since WWII....
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Changes perspective
- By Robert on 15-05-24
By: Ephraim Mattos, and others
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Directorate S
- The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- By: Steve Coll
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 28 hrs and 30 mins
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Steve Coll tells the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11....
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Filled with facts and beautifully written
- By Saad on 08-05-18
By: Steve Coll
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The Home That Was Our Country
- By: Alia Malek
- Narrated by: Alia Malek
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
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At the Arab Spring's hopeful start, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother's apartment, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970....
By: Alia Malek
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The General's Son
- Journey of an Israeli in Palestine
- By: Miko Peled
- Narrated by: Miko Peled
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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In The General's Son, Miko Peled tells us about growing up in Jerusalem in the heart of the group that ruled the then-young country, Israel....
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A breath of fresh air
- By sue davies on 06-11-20
By: Miko Peled
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Brilliant pre Oct 7th analysis
- By Nika on 26-12-23
By: Yonah Jeremy Bob, and others
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Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
- By: Yossi Klein Halevi
- Narrated by: Yossi Klein Halevi
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentator and award-winning author of Like Dreamers directly addresses his Palestinian neighbors in this taut and provocative audiobook....
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Earnest and honest effort !
- By froehlich-wiener on 10-01-24
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What Iranians Want
- Women, Life, Freedom
- By: Arash Azizi
- Narrated by: Sara Bahadori
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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On Tuesday 13 September 2022, all Mahsa Amini has planned is a day shopping in Tehran. Her birthday is next week. But she is arrested as she comes out of the subway—the Guidance Patrol deem her hijab inadequate. On Friday she is pronounced dead....
By: Arash Azizi
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Games Without Rules
- The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan
- By: Tamim Ansary
- Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
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Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism.....
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Accurate title
- By The listener on 18-05-14
By: Tamim Ansary
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War Against the Jews
- How to End Hamas Barbarism
- By: Alan Dershowitz
- Narrated by: James Gloucester
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Alan Dershowitz—#1 New York Times bestselling author and one of America’s most respected legal scholars—explains why the horrific attack of Oct 7 and Israel’s just response changes everything....
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superb and alarming
- By Joe Pearce on 28-04-24
By: Alan Dershowitz
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The ISIS Apocalypse
- The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State
- By: William McCants
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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How did the Islamic State attract so many followers and conquer so much land? By being more ruthless, more apocalyptic, and more devoted to state building than its competitors....
By: William McCants
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Revolution for Dummies
- By: Bassem Youssef
- Narrated by: Bassem Youssef
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
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"The Jon Stewart of the Arabic World" chronicles his transformation from heart surgeon to political satirist, and offers crucial insight into the Arab Spring, the Egyptian Revolution, and more....
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Fascinating and hilarious!
- By a reader on 08-04-17
By: Bassem Youssef
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Light in Gaza
- Writings Born of Fire
- By: Jehad Abusalim - editor, Jennifer Bing - editor, Mike Merryman-Lotze - editor
- Narrated by: Amin El Gamal, Hanne Rickert
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Gaza, home to two million people, continues to face suffocating conditions imposed by Israel. This distinctive anthology imagines what the future of Gaza could be, while reaffirming the critical role of Gaza in Palestinian identity, history, and struggle for liberation....
By: Jehad Abusalim - editor, and others
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Doomed to Succeed
- The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama
- By: Dennis Ross
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins
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In Doomed to Succeed, Ross takes us through every administration from Truman to Obama, throwing into dramatic relief each president's attitudes toward Israel and the region....
By: Dennis Ross
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Going Home
- A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation
- By: Raja Shehadeh
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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A penetrating evocation of memory, pain, and place that is lightened by everyday joys such as delightful accounts of shared meals and gardening, this is perhaps Raja Shehadeh’s most moving and painfully visceral addition to his series of personal histories of the occupation....
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A story of collective survival and suffering
- By Thirsty hippo on 19-11-20
By: Raja Shehadeh
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All She Lost
- The Explosion in Lebanon, the Collapse of a Nation and the Women who Survive
- By: Dalal Mawad
- Narrated by: Dalal Mawad, Wooster Studio Ltd
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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On August 4, 2020, a huge explosion in the heart of Beirut killed hundreds of people. Journalist Dalal Mawad has interviewed tens of Lebanese and foreign women - victims of the explosion, and those stuck in Lebanon - and weaves an extraordinary story of survival, corruption and impunity....
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Sad stories that must be told.
- By Anonymous User on 06-09-23
By: Dalal Mawad
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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
- Unabridged
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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....
By: Ray Takeyh
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The United States and the Armenian Genocide
- History, Memory, Politics
- By: Julien Zarifian
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the first book to examine how and why the United States refused to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide until the early 2020s. Although the American government expressed sympathy towards the plight of the Armenians in the 1910s and 1920s, historian Julien Zarifian explores how, from the 1960s, a set of geopolitical and institutional factors soon led the United States to adopt a policy of genocide nonrecognition which it would cling to for over fifty years, through Republican and Democratic administrations alike.
By: Julien Zarifian
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Letters from Guantánamo
- By: Mansoor Adayfi, Antonio Aiello
- Narrated by: Mansoor Adayfi, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Elias Khalil, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Original Recording
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In weeks after the September 11 attacks, 18-year-old Mansoor Adayfi was kidnapped by Afghan militia and sold to US forces for bounty money. After months of interrogations, he was sent to the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, as one of its first prisoners. Like the nearly 800 other men imprisoned at Guantanamo, Adayfi didn’t know why he was imprisoned or for how long. He had never seen a skyscraper and couldn’t imagine what the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center looked like, much less how they were destroyed.
By: Mansoor Adayfi, and others
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Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Intelligence and Assessments
- By: Ann Taylor
- Narrated by: Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Britain was encouraged to participate in the second Gulf War by the publication of an intelligence report that suggested that Saddam Hussein could attack the UK with weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes. When the WMDs failed to materialise, the original report was questioned, it was suggested in parliament that it had been "sexed up" as a way to scare the UK into war. Ann Taylor (MP) led an investigation to determine if the the public had been misled, and this is what they found.
By: Ann Taylor
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The Yemen Model
- Why U.S. Policy Has Failed in the Middle East
- By: Alexandra Stark
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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A close look at failed US policies in the Middle East, offering a fresh perspective on how best to reorient goals in the region.
By: Alexandra Stark
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Fridays of Rage
- Al Jazeera, the Arab Spring, and Political Islam
- By: Sam Cherribi
- Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Fridays of Rage provides a glimpse into how Al Jazeera strategically cast its journalists as martyrs in the struggle for Arab freedom while promoting itself as the mouthpiece and advocate of the Arab public.
By: Sam Cherribi
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Balcony over Jerusalem
- A Middle East Memoir: Israel, Palestine and Beyond
- By: John Lyons
- Narrated by: Peter Houghton
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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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. In this updated edition, Lyons draws from his years living in Jerusalem to give context to the devastating war between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza and gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the Israeli occupation of the West Bank.
By: John Lyons
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The United States and the Armenian Genocide
- History, Memory, Politics
- By: Julien Zarifian
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the first book to examine how and why the United States refused to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide until the early 2020s. Although the American government expressed sympathy towards the plight of the Armenians in the 1910s and 1920s, historian Julien Zarifian explores how, from the 1960s, a set of geopolitical and institutional factors soon led the United States to adopt a policy of genocide nonrecognition which it would cling to for over fifty years, through Republican and Democratic administrations alike.
By: Julien Zarifian
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Letters from Guantánamo
- By: Mansoor Adayfi, Antonio Aiello
- Narrated by: Mansoor Adayfi, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Elias Khalil, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Original Recording
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In weeks after the September 11 attacks, 18-year-old Mansoor Adayfi was kidnapped by Afghan militia and sold to US forces for bounty money. After months of interrogations, he was sent to the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, as one of its first prisoners. Like the nearly 800 other men imprisoned at Guantanamo, Adayfi didn’t know why he was imprisoned or for how long. He had never seen a skyscraper and couldn’t imagine what the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center looked like, much less how they were destroyed.
By: Mansoor Adayfi, and others
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Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Intelligence and Assessments
- By: Ann Taylor
- Narrated by: Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Britain was encouraged to participate in the second Gulf War by the publication of an intelligence report that suggested that Saddam Hussein could attack the UK with weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes. When the WMDs failed to materialise, the original report was questioned, it was suggested in parliament that it had been "sexed up" as a way to scare the UK into war. Ann Taylor (MP) led an investigation to determine if the the public had been misled, and this is what they found.
By: Ann Taylor
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The Yemen Model
- Why U.S. Policy Has Failed in the Middle East
- By: Alexandra Stark
- Narrated by: Emily Durante
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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A close look at failed US policies in the Middle East, offering a fresh perspective on how best to reorient goals in the region.
By: Alexandra Stark
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Fridays of Rage
- Al Jazeera, the Arab Spring, and Political Islam
- By: Sam Cherribi
- Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Fridays of Rage provides a glimpse into how Al Jazeera strategically cast its journalists as martyrs in the struggle for Arab freedom while promoting itself as the mouthpiece and advocate of the Arab public.
By: Sam Cherribi
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Balcony over Jerusalem
- A Middle East Memoir: Israel, Palestine and Beyond
- By: John Lyons
- Narrated by: Peter Houghton
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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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. In this updated edition, Lyons draws from his years living in Jerusalem to give context to the devastating war between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza and gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the Israeli occupation of the West Bank.
By: John Lyons