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

    • 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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    • 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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    • The CIA War in Kurdistan

    • The Untold Story of the Northern Front in the Iraq War
    • By: Sam Faddis
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings

    • In 2002, Sam Faddis was named to head a CIA team that would enter Iraq to facilitate the deployment of follow-on conventional military forces numbering more than 40,000 American soldiers....

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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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    • Iran

    • A Modern History
    • By: Abbas Amanat
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 41 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings

    • This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of years....

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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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    • 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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    • 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 46 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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    • 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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    • 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 122 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 Shadow Commander

    • Soleimani, the US, and Iran’s Global Ambitions
    • By: Arash Azizi
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 15-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings

    • Until his assassination by US drone strike in January 2020, commander Qassem Soleimani was one of the most powerful men in Iran and the military spearhead for Iranian foreign policy, enacting the wishes of the country's Supreme Leader in the region....

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    • Mecca

    • The Sacred City
    • By: Ziauddin Sardar
    • Narrated by: Amerjit Deu
    • Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 24-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In this insightful book, Ziauddin Sardar unravels the meaning and significance of Mecca....

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  • Iranian Rappers and Persian Porn: A Hitchhiker's Adventures in the New Iran cover art

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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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