Arab World

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    • Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East
    • By: Fawaz A. Gerges
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 18 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 17-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Fawaz Gerges, one of the world's leading authorities on the Middle East, tells how the clash between pan-Arab nationalism and pan-Islamism has shaped the history of the region from the 1920s to the present....

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    • An Insider's Guide to Living and Working with Arab Culture
    • By: Rana Nejem
    • Narrated by: Rana F. Nejem
    • Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 19-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This book is a practical map that will help you understand the people and demystify the culture of the Arab world - the beliefs, values and social structures that determine how business is conducted and how things are done....

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    • 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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    • The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance
    • By: Elizabeth F. Thompson
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when representative democracy became a political option for Arabs - and how the West denied the opportunity....

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    • By: Wilfred Thesiger
    • Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 24-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • For a period of seven years, Wilfred Thesiger canoed through the marshes at the confluence of Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates rivers, living among the native Madan tribes and their islands made of reeds....

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    • Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads
    • By: David Rundell
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • 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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    • Memoirs of an Arab-Jew
    • By: Avi Shlaim
    • Narrated by: Neil Shah
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing their beloved Iraq to the new state of Israel. Today the once flourishing Jewish community of Iraq, at one time numbering over 130,000 and tracing its history back 2,600 years, has all but vanished.

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    • By: P.C. Wren
    • Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
    • Series: Beau Geste, Book 1
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 22-03-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • The world-famous novel of suspense and adventure, love and glory, courage, and treachery....

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    • By: Albert Hourani
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-99
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Despite the turmoil of Arab nationalism and fundamentalism, Middle Eastern wars, and oil crises...

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    • ISIS and the Death of the Arab Spring
    • By: Charles Glass
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Glass has reported extensively from the Middle East and travelled frequently in Syria over several decades. Here he melds together reportage, analysis, and history....

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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: 22-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 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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    • The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
    • By: Ari Shavit
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • An authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of the most influential journalists writing about the Middle East today....

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    • Revolution, Democracy, and the Islamist Challenge from Tunis to Damascus
    • By: Adeed Dawisha
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 28-10-13
    • Language: English
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    • An eye-opening survey of the recent Arab revolutions and their political consequences, comparing them to those of a previous generation....

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    • The Landmark Library, Book 13
    • By: Justin Marozzi
    • Narrated by: Mark Elstob
    • Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 13-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In the seventh and eighth centuries AD, armies inspired by the new religion of Islam burst out of Arabia to subjugate the Levant, southwest Asia, North Africa and the Iberian peninsula....

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    • Women in the Arab World
    • By: Nawal El Saadawi
    • Narrated by: Raghad Chaar
    • Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Nawal El Saadawi writes out of a powerful sense of the violence which permeated her society. Her experiences working as a doctor in villages around Egypt, witnessing prostitution, honour killings and sexual abuse, including female circumcision, drove her to give voice to this suffering.

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    • How Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World
    • By: Alex Rowell
    • Narrated by: Nigel Paterson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Egyptian president who ruled for eighteen years from the coup d'etat he led, is best known for wresting the Suez Canal from the British and French empires and befriending such revolutionaries as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Yet there is a darker side to Nasser's regime....

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    • Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
    • By: S. Frederick Starr
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 25 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • Lost Enlightenment chronicles this forgotten age of achievement, seeks to explain its rise, and explores the competing theories about the cause of its eventual demise....

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    • Day by Day and Minute by Minute the Historic Struggle for Jerusalem and the Birth of Israel
    • By: Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre
    • Narrated by: Theodore Bikel
    • Length: 23 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • O Jerusalem! is the epic drama of 1948, when Arabs and Jews fought for control of the city of Jerusalem...

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    • The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness
    • By: Kenneth M. Pollack
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 24 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 24-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Since the Second World War, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight. They have lost many wars that by all rights they should have won, and in their best performances only ever achieved quite modest accomplishments....

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    • How Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World
    • By: Alex Rowell
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 14-11-23
    • Language: English
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    • Alex Rowell offers a necessary reexamination of Gamal Abdel Nasser's—the larger-than-life Egyptian president who ruled for eighteen years between the coup d'etat he led in 1952 and his death in 197—rule and a new understanding of the politics of the Middle East....

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