Arab World History

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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: 30-04-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 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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    • By: Albert Hourani
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-1999
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Despite the turmoil of Arab nationalism and fundamentalism, Middle Eastern wars, and oil crises...

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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: 17-04-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 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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    • Memoirs of an Arab-Jew
    • By: Avi Shlaim
    • Narrated by: Neil Shah
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-2024
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads
    • By: David Rundell
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 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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    • 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: 10-06-2020
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, Revised Edition
    • By: David K. Shipler
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 27 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 22-11-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 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: 19-11-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 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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    • ISIS and the Death of the Arab Spring
    • By: Charles Glass
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 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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    • By: Wilfred Thesiger
    • Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 24-08-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 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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    • 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: 06-06-2003
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 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 Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
    • By: Robert G. Hoyland
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • In just over a hundred years - from the death of Muhammad in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750 - the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East....

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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: 12-10-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 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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    • The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama
    • By: Dennis Ross
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 13-10-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • 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....

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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: 11-07-2024
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • The Arab Uprisings, Human Rights, and the Future of the Middle East
    • By: Micheline R. Ishay
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 20-08-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The enormous sense of optimism unleashed by the Arab Spring in 2011 soon gave way to widespread suffering and despair. Of the many popular uprisings against autocratic regimes, Tunisia's now stands alone as a beacon of hope for sustainable human rights progress....

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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: 24-07-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 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 the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
    • By: Jonathan Lyons
    • Narrated by: Jay Snyder
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 30-03-2010
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Here is the story of how medieval Arab scholars made dazzling advances in science and philosophy, and of the Europeans who brought this knowledge back to the West....

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    • The History and Legacy of the Arab Slave Trade and the Indian Ocean Slave Trade
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Scott Clem
    • Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
    • Release date: 13-07-2017
    • Language: English
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    • The transatlantic slave trade was founded by the Portuguese in the 15th century for the specific purpose of supplying the New World colonies with African slave labor....

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    • The US, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020
    • By: Jerome Slater
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 19 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 23-04-2024
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In Mythologies Without End, Jerome Slater argues that US policies in the region are largely a product of mythologies that are often flatly wrong.

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