Bestsellers
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
- By: Omar El Akkad
- Narrated by: Omar El Akkad
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,165
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Performance1,103
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Story1,103
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK PALESTINE BOOK AWARD WINNER FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it...
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Rambling rant
- By Terence on 06-13-25
By: Omar El Akkad
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Doing Time Like a Spy
- How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison
- By: John Kiriakou
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall183
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Performance170
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Story168
On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a 30 month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners. Doing Time Like a Spy is Kiriakou's memoir of his 23...
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Atta boy John!!!
- By James H. on 12-29-19
By: John Kiriakou
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
- A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917--2017
- By: Rashid Khalidi
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Rashid Khalidi - introduction
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,420
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Performance1,281
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Story1,277
This program includes an introduction read by the author. A landmark history of 100 years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history. In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the...
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Thoroughly Researched and Evidence-Based, but...
- By K on 05-24-21
By: Rashid Khalidi
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Iran's Grand Strategy
- A Political History
- By: Vali Nasr
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance34
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Story34
This audiobook narrated by Fajer Al-Kaisi overturns simplistic portrayals of Iran as a theocratic pariah state, revealing how its strategic moves on the world stage are driven by two pervasive threats—external aggression and internal dissolution.
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well detailed history of modern Iran
- By Fr. S. on 06-28-25
By: Vali Nasr
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All the Shah's Men
- An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
- By: Stephen Kinzer
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard, Jonathan Yen
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,648
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Performance1,123
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Story1,130
Half a century ago, the United States overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, whose "crime" was nationalizing the country's oil industry. In a cloak-and-dagger story of spies, saboteurs, and secret agents, Kinzer reveals the involvement of Eisenhower...
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Hard to please
- By Rick on 09-25-04
By: Stephen Kinzer
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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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Overall51
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Performance44
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Story44
The program features a new introduction written and read by the author. "If you're only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it."—Seymour M. Hersh One of the most thought-provoking books ever written about the Middle East, From Beirut to Jerusalem remains vital to our...
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A dated but still relevant take on the Israel/ Palestine conflict
- By Steven on 05-14-24
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
- By: Omar El Akkad
- Narrated by: Omar El Akkad
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,165
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Performance1,103
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Story1,103
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK PALESTINE BOOK AWARD WINNER FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it...
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Rambling rant
- By Terence on 06-13-25
By: Omar El Akkad
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Doing Time Like a Spy
- How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison
- By: John Kiriakou
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall183
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Performance170
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Story168
On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a 30 month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners. Doing Time Like a Spy is Kiriakou's memoir of his 23...
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Atta boy John!!!
- By James H. on 12-29-19
By: John Kiriakou
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
- A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917--2017
- By: Rashid Khalidi
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Rashid Khalidi - introduction
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,420
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Performance1,281
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Story1,277
This program includes an introduction read by the author. A landmark history of 100 years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history. In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the...
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Thoroughly Researched and Evidence-Based, but...
- By K on 05-24-21
By: Rashid Khalidi
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Iran's Grand Strategy
- A Political History
- By: Vali Nasr
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance34
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Story34
This audiobook narrated by Fajer Al-Kaisi overturns simplistic portrayals of Iran as a theocratic pariah state, revealing how its strategic moves on the world stage are driven by two pervasive threats—external aggression and internal dissolution.
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well detailed history of modern Iran
- By Fr. S. on 06-28-25
By: Vali Nasr
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All the Shah's Men
- An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
- By: Stephen Kinzer
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard, Jonathan Yen
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,648
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Performance1,123
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Story1,130
Half a century ago, the United States overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, whose "crime" was nationalizing the country's oil industry. In a cloak-and-dagger story of spies, saboteurs, and secret agents, Kinzer reveals the involvement of Eisenhower...
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Hard to please
- By Rick on 09-25-04
By: Stephen Kinzer
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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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Overall51
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Performance44
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Story44
The program features a new introduction written and read by the author. "If you're only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it."—Seymour M. Hersh One of the most thought-provoking books ever written about the Middle East, From Beirut to Jerusalem remains vital to our...
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A dated but still relevant take on the Israel/ Palestine conflict
- By Steven on 05-14-24
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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
- Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
- By: Angela Y. Davis
- Narrated by: Angela Davis, Coleen Marlo
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,607
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Performance1,405
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Story1,395
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of Black feminism...
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Injustice anywhere is Injustice everywhere
- By Jarucia Jaycox on 05-05-17
By: Angela Y. Davis
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Jerusalem
- The Biography
- By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 25 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall938
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Performance819
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Story821
Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the...
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In-depth and gripping history of 3,000 years
- By A reader on 12-16-11
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The Palestine Laboratory
- How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
- By: Antony Loewenstein
- Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall58
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Performance48
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Story48
** Winner of the 2023 Walkley Book Award for Non-fiction Journalism ** ** Shortlisted for the 2023 Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing ** Israel's military industrial complex uses the occupied Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then...
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Everything I expected, and even more- Revealing and brutally honest
- By Anonymous on 11-29-25
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Tomorrow Is Yesterday
- Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine
- By: Hussein Agha, Robert Malley
- Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance23
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Story23
Two insiders explain why the Israeli–Palestinian peace process failed, and anticipate what lies ahead. On October 7, 2023, Hamas fighters killed more than eleven hundred Israelis and took more than two hundred hostages, prompting an Israeli response that has in turn taken tens of thousands of...
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truly bizarre style of narration
- By Jennifer Dawson on 01-23-26
By: Hussein Agha, and others
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Wars of Ambition
- The United States, Iran, and the Struggle for the Middle East
- By: Afshon Ostovar
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
The September 11 attacks upended America’s relatively strong influence in the Middle East and prompted President George W. Bush’s plan to remake the region through a war in Iraq. By bringing liberal democracy to Iraq, Bush hoped that the country would be a springboard for the spread of...
By: Afshon Ostovar
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The Architect of Espionage
- The Man Who Built Israel's Mossad into the World's Boldest Intelligence Force
- By: Samuel M. Katz
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance13
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Story13
From a New York Times bestselling author and an expert on Middle Eastern conflict comes a riveting biography of Meir Dagan, the legendary Mossad director who transformed Israel’s intelligence service into a global powerhouse of espionage and counterterrorism—“required reading for those...
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Heroism of Dagan and his unwavering commitment to the State of Israel
- By Susan on 03-26-26
By: Samuel M. Katz
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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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Overall727
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Performance625
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Story625
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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Steeping The Lemon Tree
- By Faithfull Fan on 04-11-18
By: Sandy Tolan
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A History of Iran
- Empire of the Mind
- By: Michael Axworthy
- Narrated by: Darius Joseph
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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Story7
The definitive history of Iran, from the ancient Persian empires to today. “Michael Axworthy’s deft untangling of the country’s history, from the advent of Zoroastrianism to the 1979 revolution, is a stunning achievement.” ―Guardian Iran is a land of contradictions. It is an Islamic...
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Not a concise history
- By WhoAmI on 04-11-26
By: Michael Axworthy
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The Return
- Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
- By: Hisham Matar
- Narrated by: Hisham Matar
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,066
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Performance949
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Story950
When Hisham Matar was a 19-year-old student in England, his father was kidnapped. One of the Qaddafi regime's most prominent opponents in exile, he was held in a secret prison....
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Touching memoir. Consider hard copy
- By Joschka Philipps on 02-22-18
By: Hisham Matar
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The Last Punisher
- A SEAL Team Three Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi
- By: Kevin Lacz, Ethan E. Rocke, Lincy Lacz
- Narrated by: Timothy Phillips
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,583
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Performance4,129
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Story4,119
The Last Punisher is a bold, no-holds-barred first-person account of the Iraq War. With wry humor and moving testimony, Kevin Lacz tells the story of his tour in Iraq with SEAL Team Three, the warrior elite of the navy. This legendary unit, known as The Punishers, included Chris Kyle (American...
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Good story, poorly read
- By Dusty on 09-03-16
By: Kevin Lacz, and others
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Genocide Bad
- Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation
- By: Sim Kern
- Narrated by: Sim Kern
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance21
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Story21
Part activist memoir, part crash course in Jewish and Palestinian history, Genocide Bad dismantles Zionist propaganda and maps a course towards collective liberation in ten unapologetic essays.
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Basically the most important book I’ve read this year
- By Anonymous on 02-02-26
By: Sim Kern
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Ten Myths About Israel
- By: Ilan Pappe
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall47
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Performance41
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Story41
The myths and reality behind the state of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—from "the most eloquent writer on Palestinian history" (New Statesman) The outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the...
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A dishonest book, and a very frustrating listen
- By Alex Knjv on 11-12-25
By: Ilan Pappe
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Black Flags
- The Rise of ISIS
- By: Joby Warrick
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,833
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Performance2,477
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Story2,472
WINNER OF THE 2016 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION “A Best Book of 2015”—The New York Times, The Washington Post, People Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Kansas City Star, and Kirkus Reviews In a thrilling dramatic narrative, awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction...
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So much learned
- By mike flavin on 02-11-16
By: Joby Warrick
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Defiance
- A Memoir of Awakening, Rebellion, and Survival in Syria
- By: Loubna Mrie
- Narrated by: Loubna Mrie
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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Story9
“Defiance takes my breath away. A nail-biting tale of astonishing courage.” —Jeannette Walls #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle “A heartbreaking account of a young woman’s struggle for freedom against the rampaging forces of fanaticism and tyranny...
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I absolutely love this book.
- By Amazon Customer on 03-13-26
By: Loubna Mrie
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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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Overall1,400
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Performance1,207
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Story1,195
A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about America’s longest war, foreshadowing the Taliban’s recapture of Afghanistan, by Washington Post...
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Eye-Opening Book
- By David J Ray on 09-01-21
By: Craig Whitlock, and others
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The War of Return
- How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace
- By: Einat Wilf, Adi Schwartz
- Narrated by: Einat Wilf
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall68
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Performance63
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Story63
Two prominent Israeli liberals argue that for the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians to end with peace, Palestinians must come to terms with the fact that there will be no "right of return."
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The Significant Details Holding Back Middle East Peace Progress
- By Burnt Glass on 09-26-25
By: Einat Wilf, and others
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MBS
- The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman
- By: Ben Hubbard
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall582
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Performance500
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Story501
“Brilliant . . . a detailed and disturbing portrait” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) of Saudi Arabia’s secretive and mercurial ruler, a key player in Trump’s vision for the Middle East “Revelatory . . . a vivid portrait of how MBS has altered the kingdom.”—The...
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Suffers from 'Objective Journalism' Syndrome
- By Anonymous on 05-09-20
By: Ben Hubbard
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Night of Power
- The Betrayal of the Middle East
- By: Robert Fisk
- Narrated by: Tim Bruce, Kit Griffiths
- Length: 23 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance11
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Story11
'ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING…AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE' NOAM CHOMSKY In this final work from renowned journalist Robert Fisk, he picks up reporting on the Middle East where his internationally bestselling The Great War of...
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Honesty of the writer.
- By M. S. on 04-15-25
By: Robert Fisk
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The Gates of Gaza
- A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel's Borderlands
- By: Amir Tibon
- Narrated by: Amir Tibon
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall108
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Performance103
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Story103
The gripping true story of how leading Israeli journalist Amir Tibon, along with his wife and their two young children, were rescued from Kibbutz Nahal Oz on October 7, 2023 by Tibon’s own father—an incredible tale of survival that also reveals the deep tensions and systemic failures that...
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Fascinating and enlightening
- By A little purple on 11-05-24
By: Amir Tibon
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Coming to Palestine
- By: Sheldon Richman
- Narrated by: Marcus Freeman
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
In this incredible volume of essays, collected over 30 years, Sheldon Richman exposes the true history of Israeli dispossession of the Palestinians.
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Truth
- By Christopher Templeton on 11-12-25
By: Sheldon Richman
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Revolutionary Iran
- A History of the Islamic Republic
- By: Michael Axworthy
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 19 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance41
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Story41
The Iranian Revolution of 1979 was a defining moment of the modern era. Its success unleashed a wave of Islamist fervor across the Middle East and signaled a sharp decline in the appeal of Western ideologies in the Islamic world. Michael Axworthy takes listeners through the major periods in...
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Excellent overview from the revolution to 2012
- By T. Fisher on 11-23-22
By: Michael Axworthy
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The Man Who Would Be King
- Mohammed bin Salman and the Transformation of Saudi Arabia
- By: Karen Elliott House
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance29
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Story29
Based on exclusive interviews, an eye-opening biography of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), head of the House of Saud, the calculating ruler of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and a central Middle East power broker. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former Wall Street Journal publisher...
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Politically acceptable biography
- By David on 04-06-26
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Gaza in Crisis
- Reflections on the US-Israeli War Against the Palestinians
- By: Ilan Pappe, Noam Chomsky, Frank Barat - editor
- Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance8
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Story8
This "succinct and eye-opening collection of recent interviews and essays [presents] sober and unflinching analysis" of Gaza's humanitarian crisis (Publishers Weekly). While numerous books address Israel-Palestine conflict, Gaza in Crisis brings together two renowned thinkers—American activist...
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Excellent
- By Waleed Y. A. Sarhan on 04-29-25
By: Ilan Pappe, and others
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The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- What Everyone Needs to Know®
- By: Dov Waxman
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Story6
No conflict in the world has lasted as long, generated as many news headlines, or incited as much controversy as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet, despite, or perhaps because of, the degree of international attention it receives, the conflict is still widely misunderstood. While Israelis...
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Excellent
- By AMichaelis on 12-15-25
By: Dov Waxman