- Australia & Oceania (33)
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The Palestine Laboratory
- How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
- By: Antony Loewenstein
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein, author of Disaster Capitalism, uncovers a largely hidden world in a global investigation with secret documents, revealing interviews and on-the-ground reporting.
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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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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
- Unabridged
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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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brilliant
- By Anonymous User on 29-02-2020
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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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Surprisingly, very Pro-Islam - wasted credit.
- By Jason R on 01-12-2023
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Honest
- By Anonymous User on 27-03-2024
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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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The Palestine Laboratory
- How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
- By: Antony Loewenstein
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein, author of Disaster Capitalism, uncovers a largely hidden world in a global investigation with secret documents, revealing interviews and on-the-ground reporting.
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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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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
- Unabridged
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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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brilliant
- By Anonymous User on 29-02-2020
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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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Surprisingly, very Pro-Islam - wasted credit.
- By Jason R on 01-12-2023
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Honest
- By Anonymous User on 27-03-2024
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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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Beyond Veiled Cliches
- The Real Lives of Arab Women
- By: Amal Awad
- Narrated by: Amal Awad
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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As someone who has a foot in both the Western and Arabic worlds, Amal set out to explore the lives of Arab women both in Australia and the Middle East....
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Good account of details.
- By Anonymous User on 04-02-2019
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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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Well balanced, engaging and sobering. 10/10
- By Kat on 17-12-2020
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Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
- By: Yossi Klein Halevi
- Narrated by: Yossi Klein Halevi
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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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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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
- Unabridged
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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....
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In Search of the River Jordan
- A Story of Palestine, Israel and the Struggle for Water
- By: James Fergusson
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Access to water has played a pivotal role in the Israel-Palestine dispute. Israel has diverted the River Jordan via pipes and canals to build a successful modern state. But this has been at the expense of the region's cohabitants....
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Shows a completely different perspective
- By msegal on 06-03-2024
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Walking Free
- By: Munjed Al Muderis
- Narrated by: Rupert Farley
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Courage in the face of adversity.
- By Anonymous User on 25-05-2023
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Iran Rising
- The Survival and Future of the Islamic Republic
- By: Amin Saikal
- Narrated by: Simon Shepherd
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In Iran Rising, renowned Iran specialist Amin Saikal describes how the country has managed to survive despite ongoing domestic struggles, Western sanctions, and countless other serious challenges....
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Sound dubbing overlap
- By Neil Brightwell on 15-01-2020
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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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Great
- By Anonymous User on 17-07-2019
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Revolution for Dummies
- By: Bassem Youssef
- Narrated by: Bassem Youssef
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Entertaining the Arab Spring
- By kitty11 on 14-05-2017
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Guest House for Young Widows
- Among the Women of ISIS
- By: Azadeh Moaveni
- Narrated by: Sarah Agha
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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A gripping account of 13 women who joined, endured, and, in some cases, escaped life in the Islamic State - based on years of immersive reporting by a Pulitzer Prize finalist....
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Winds of Change
- The Future of Democracy in Iran
- By: Reza Pahlavi
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Forced to become a normal citizen, the exiled son of the late Shah of Iran attempts to provide understanding and direction for his country and its people....
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Timeless Wisdom: 22 Years Later, This Book's Insights Still Shine
- By Anonymous User on 17-05-2024
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Harpoon
- Inside the Covert War Against Terrorism's Money Masters
- By: Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, Samuel M. Katz
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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A revelatory account of the cloak-and-dagger Israeli campaign to target the finances fueling terror organizations - an effort that became the blueprint for US efforts to combat threats like ISIS....
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MUST READ
- By Anonymous User on 21-03-2019
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America's War for the Greater Middle East
- A Military History
- By: Andrew J. Bacevich
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro, Andrew J. Bacevich
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving in the Greater Middle East....
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Excellent insight & analysis
- By Simon Crowther on 17-05-2017
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The Iran Wars
- Spy Games, Bank Battles, and the Secret Deals That Reshaped the Middle East
- By: Jay Solomon
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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From Qasem Soleimani to the nuclear deal, a deeply reported exploration of Iran’s decades-long power struggle with the United States - in the tradition of Steve Coll’s Ghost Wars and Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower....
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The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
- By: Seymour M. Hersh
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had begun chasing before the devastating attacks of 9/11....
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Night of Power
- The Betrayal of the Middle East
- By: Robert Fisk
- Length: 22 hrs
- Unabridged
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An extraordinary chronicle of Fisk's trademark rigorous journalism, historical analysis and eyewitness reporting. Fully immersed in the Middle East and critical of the West's ongoing interference, Fisk was committed to uncovering complex and uncomfortable truths.
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Kingdom of the Unjust
- Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection
- By: Medea Benjamin
- Narrated by: Margy Stein
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Medea Benjamin researches the sinister nature of the relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia. In seven succinct chapters followed by a meditation on prospects for change, Benjamin shines a light on one of the most perplexing elements of American foreign policy....
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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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A must read book
- By Akram on 11-06-2023
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La Rabbia e l'Orgoglio
- By: Oriana Fallaci
- Narrated by: Maria Rosaria Omaggio
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Con "La rabbia e l'orgoglio" (2001), Oriana Fallaci rompe un silenzio durato dieci anni, dalla pubblicazione di "Insciallah", epico romanzo...
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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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During the first World War, over a million Armenians were killed as Ottoman Turks embarked on a bloody campaign of ethnic cleansing. Scholars have long described these massacres as genocide, one of Hitler's prime inspirations for the Holocaust.
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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.
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The Complete Infidel's Guide to Iran
- By: Robert Spencer
- Narrated by: Bob Reed
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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The author of The Complete Infidel's Guide to ISIS and The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran returns with the sharp wit and boundless courage needed to expose the oncoming storm from Iran....
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A brilliant insight into Iran today
- By Scott on 28-04-2017
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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From Beirut to Jerusalem
- By: Thomas L. Friedman
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 25 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the most thought-provoking books ever written about the Middle East, From Beirut to Jerusalem remains vital to our understanding of this complex and volatile region of the world. Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas L. Friedman drew upon his 10 years of experience reporting from Lebanon and Israel to write this now-classic work of journalism.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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From Beirut to Jerusalem
- By: Thomas L. Friedman
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 25 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the most thought-provoking books ever written about the Middle East, From Beirut to Jerusalem remains vital to our understanding of this complex and volatile region of the world. Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas L. Friedman drew upon his 10 years of experience reporting from Lebanon and Israel to write this now-classic work of journalism.