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    • A Secret History of the War
    • By: Craig Whitlock, The Washington Post
    • Narrated by: Dan Bittner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,346 ratings
    • 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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    • The Biography
    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 25 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 878 ratings
    • 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....

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    • By: Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 193 ratings
    • Operation Protective Edge, Israel's 2014 assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab. The need to stand in solidarity with Palestinians has never been greater....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 08-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,505 ratings
    • 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....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 02-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,281 ratings
    • 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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    • The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World
    • By: Dan Senor, Saul Singer
    • Narrated by: Dan Senor
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
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    • Why do Israelis have among the world’s highest life expectancies and lowest rates of “deaths of despair” from suicide and substance abuse? Why is Israel’s population young and growing while all other wealthy democracies are aging and shrinking?....

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    • How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison
    • By: John Kiriakou
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
    • By: Angela Y. Davis
    • Narrated by: Angela Davis, Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,542 ratings
    • Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world....

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    • A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel's Borderlands
    • By: Amir Tibon
    • Narrated by: Amir Tibon
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 09-24-24
    • Language: English
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    • On the morning of Saturday, October 7, Amir Tibon and his wife were awakened by mortar rounds exploding near their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, a progressive Israeli settlement along the Gaza border. Soon, they were holding their two young daughters in the family’s reinforced safe room.

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    • By: Sandy Tolan
    • Narrated by: Sandy Tolan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 689 ratings
    • 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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    • Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
    • By: Nathan Thrall
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 169 ratings
    • Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing, heartbreaking day.

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    • Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
    • By: Hisham Matar
    • Narrated by: Hisham Matar
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 998 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Thomas L. Friedman
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 25 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-24
    • Language: English
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    • Rich with anecdote, history, analysis, and autobiography, From Beirut to Jerusalem will continue to shape how we see the Middle East for many years to come.

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    • Humanitarian Warriors in the Battle of Mosul
    • By: Ephraim Mattos, Scott McEwen
    • Narrated by: Ephraim Mattos
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 569 ratings
    • 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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    • 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: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 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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    • By: Ilan Pappe
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-24
    • Language: English
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    • The outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel.

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Martin Bunton
    • Narrated by: Neil Shah
    • Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • The conflict between Palestine and Israel is one of the most highly publicized and bitter struggles in history. In this accessible and stimulating Very Short Introduction, Martin Bunton clearly explains the history of the problem, a modern territorial contest between two nations....

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