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    • The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire
    • By: Eckart Frahm
    • Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
    • Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Here, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of Assyria and its formative role in global history....

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    • The Age of the Great Kings
    • By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
    • Narrated by: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
    • Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 163 ratings
    • The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of Asia and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. In Persians, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the epic story of this dynasty and the world it ruled....

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    • Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
    • By: Marc David Baer
    • Narrated by: Jamie Parker
    • Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 174 ratings
    • This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West....

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    • Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power
    • By: Bradley Hope, Justin Scheck
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 624 ratings
    • From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters comes a revelatory look at the inner workings of the world's most powerful royal family, and how the struggle for succession produced Saudi Arabia's charismatic but ruthless Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, aka MBS.​...

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    • Two Whistleblowers’ Stories of Torture, Terror, Secret Wars, and CIA Lies
    • By: John Kiriakou, Joseph Hickman
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • The Convenient Terrorist is the definitive inside account of the capture, torture, and detention of Abu Zubaydah, the first “high-value target” captured by the CIA after 9/11....

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    • A History
    • By: Eugene Rogan
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 27 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 661 ratings
    • In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on Arab sources and texts to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context....

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    • 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: 02-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 922 ratings
    • Princess describes the life of Princess Sultana Al Sa'ud, a princess in the royal house of Saudi Arabia.

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    • By: Dave Eggers
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 945 ratings
    • The true story of a young Yemeni-American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war....

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    • A True Story of War, Rape, Courage and Survival
    • By: Jean Sasson
    • Narrated by: Parisa Johnston
    • Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • This is the true story of Yasmeena, a bright and beautiful young Lebanese woman who was imprisoned in Kuwait during the first Gulf War....

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    • The Arabian Kingdom's Pursuit of Profit and Power
    • By: Ellen R. Wald PhD
    • Narrated by: Paul Ansdell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • A history of the most profitable company in the world, Saudi Aramco, and the story behind the family that ruthlessly maneuvered to control this multi-trillion dollar enterprise....

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know®
    • By: James L. Gelvin
    • Narrated by: Kent Klineman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In the second edition of The New Middle East, renowned scholar James L. Gelvin explains how in the aftermath of the collapse of the USSR, the American invasion of Iraq, and the Arab uprisings of 2010-11, a new Middle East has emerged....

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    • My Life In Saudi Arabia
    • By: Carmen bin Ladin
    • Narrated by: Shohreh Aghdashloo
    • Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 317 ratings
    • On September 11, 2001, Carmen bin Ladin heard the news that the Twin Towers had been struck....

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    • The Desert Warrior Who Created the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
    • By: Michael Darlow, Barbara Bray
    • Narrated by: Brian Bascle
    • Length: 21 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 362 ratings
    • Ibn Saud grew to manhood living the harsh traditional life of the desert nomad, a life that had changed little since the days of Abraham....

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    • How al-Qaeda Is Winning the War on Terror
    • By: Rob Schultheis
    • Narrated by: Elijah Alexander
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • An in-depth look at why America is losing the War on Terror and what we should do if we really want to defeat Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda....

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    • Mesopotamia History, Book 2
    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr
    • Series: Mesopotamia History, Book 2
    • Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • The Akkadian Empire was one of the first empires in human history and certainly the first to involve the central government of a large, multi-ethnic populace. It also introduced things like the very first postal system and facilitated advances in science, art, and medicine....

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    • Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy
    • By: Martin Indyk
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 25 hrs
    • Release date: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • More than 20 years have elapsed since the United States last brokered a peace agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians. In that time, three presidents have tried and failed....

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    • Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe
    • By: Malcolm Nance
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • ISIS - the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria - has taken on the mantle of being the single most dangerous terrorist threat to global security since al-Qaeda....

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    • The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy
    • By: Robert Vitalis
    • Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
    • Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A bracing corrective to the myths that have shaped economic, military, and diplomatic policy, dispelling our oil-soaked fantasies of dependence....

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    • The Story of a Tank Crew at War
    • By: John Dingley
    • Narrated by: Alan Turton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The Gulf War of 1990-91 was probably the last major deployment of arms by the UK on such a scale and a larger gathering of armour than the Battle of Kursk in WW II....

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