Middle East Revolution

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    • By: Bassem Youssef
    • Narrated by: Bassem Youssef
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 489 ratings
    • "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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    • By: Peter Mansfield
    • Narrated by: Richard Brown
    • Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-28-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • In this masterly work of synthesis, Peter Mansfield explores two centuries of history in the Middle East...

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    • A Reporter's Story: Black September and the Yom Kippur War
    • By: Wilborn Hampton
    • Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
    • Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In War in the Middle East, the veteran journalist offers a fascinating account of his early 1970s reports from the volatile desert region amidst Black September and the Yom Kippur War....

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    • War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923
    • By: Sean McMeekin
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 19 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 166 ratings
    • An astonishing retelling of 20th-century history from the Ottoman perspective, delivering profound new insights into World War I and the contemporary Middle East....

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    • The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power - A Memoir
    • By: Wael Ghonim
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • The revolutions sweeping the Middle East in 2011 were unlike any the world had ever seen. Brutal regimes that had been in power for many decades were suddenly swarmed by unstoppable mobs of freedom seekers....

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    • By: Robin Yassin-Kassab, Leila Al-Shami
    • Narrated by: Fergus Nicoll
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Burning Country explores the complicated reality of life in present-day Syria with unprecedented detail and sophistication, drawing on new first-hand testimonies from opposition fighters, exiles lost in an archipelago of refugee camps, and courageous human rights activists....

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    • A Girl in Revolutionary Iran
    • By: Jacqueline Saper
    • Narrated by: Vaneh Assadourian
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 338 ratings
    • In a deeply intimate and personal story, Jacqueline Saper recounts her privileged childhood in prerevolutionary Iran and how she gradually became aware of the paradoxes in her life and community - primarily the disparate religions and cultures....

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    • An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
    • By: Peter Hessler
    • Narrated by: Peter Hessler
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 293 ratings
    • Drawn by a fascination with Egypt's rich history and culture, Peter Hessler moved with his wife and twin daughters to Cairo in 2011. He wanted to learn Arabic, explore Cairo's neighborhoods, and visit the legendary archaeological digs of Upper Egypt....

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    • Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
    • By: Mona Eltahawy
    • Narrated by: Mona Eltahawy
    • Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • When the Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy published an article in Foreign Policy in 2012 titled "Why Do They Hate Us?," it provoked a firestorm of controversy....

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    • A History of the Islamic Republic
    • By: Michael Axworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 19 hrs
    • Release date: 07-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Axworthy takes listeners through the major periods in Iranian history over the last 30 years: the overthrow of the old regime and the creation of the new one; the Iran-Iraq war; the reconstruction era following the war; the reformist wave led by Mohammed Khatami; and the present day....

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    • A Memoir of My Parents
    • By: Neda Toloui-Semnani
    • Narrated by: Neda Toloui-Semnani
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • From a daughter of Iranian revolutionaries, activists, immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers comes a gripping and emotional memoir of family and the tumultuous history of two nations....

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    • The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
    • By: Scott Anderson
    • Length: 18 hrs
    • Release date: 08-05-25
    • Language: English
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    • From the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller LAWRENCE IN ARABIA a stunningly revelatory narrative history of one of the most momentous events in modern times, the jaw-dropping stupidity of the American government, and the dawn of the age of religious nationalism.

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    • The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran
    • By: Reza Kahlili
    • Narrated by: Richard Allen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 471 ratings
    • A true story as exhilarating as a great spy thriller, as turbulent as today's headlines from the Middle East, A Time to Betray reveals what no other previous CIA operative's memoir possibly could....

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    • Football Revolution in the Middle East and the Road to Qatar
    • By: James Montague
    • Narrated by: Colin Mace
    • Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The definitive story of the Middle East's unstoppable rise to football superpower, and the road to the Qatar World Cup...

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    • By: Philip Robins
    • Narrated by: Richard Aspel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-12
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • An intelligent and entertaining exploration of this notoriously unsettled region....

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    • The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East
    • By: Marc Lynch
    • Narrated by: Nick Edwards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Barely a year after the self-immolation of a young fruit seller in Tunisia, a vast wave of popular protest has convulsed the Middle East....

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    • Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Series)
    • By: Robert L. Jervis
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • The U.S. government spends enormous resources each year on the gathering and analysis of intelligence, yet the history of American foreign policy is littered with missteps and misunderstandings that have resulted from intelligence failures....

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    • The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East
    • By: Christopher M. Schroeder
    • Narrated by: Christopher M. Schroeder
    • Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • Despite the world's elation at the Arab Spring, shockingly little has changed politically in the Middle East....

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    • The Dark Side of Revolutions in the Middle East
    • By: Nonie Darwish
    • Narrated by: Gigi Falkland
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Respected human rights activist Nonie Darwish assesses the potential for freedom to succeed following the recent revolutions in the Middle East....

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