Arab World History

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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 657 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 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes, and Empires
    • By: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 25 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 286 ratings
    • This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances....

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    • By: Albert Hourani
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-99
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 332 ratings
    • Despite the turmoil of Arab nationalism and fundamentalism, Middle Eastern wars, and oil crises...

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    • Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East
    • By: Fawaz A. Gerges
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 18 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • Fawaz Gerges, one of the world's leading authorities on the Middle East, tells how the clash between pan-Arab nationalism and pan-Islamism has shaped the history of the region from the 1920s to the present....

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    • Memoirs of an Arab-Jew
    • By: Avi Shlaim
    • Narrated by: Neil Shah
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing their beloved Iraq to the new state of Israel. Today the once flourishing Jewish community of Iraq, at one time numbering over 130,000 and tracing its history back 2,600 years, has all but vanished.

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    • Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
    • By: Ian Black
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 20 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • In Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent over three decades covering events in the Middle East and is currently a fellow at the London School of Economics, offers a major new history of the Arab-Zionist conflict from 1917 to today....

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    • The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
    • By: Robert G. Hoyland
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 232 ratings
    • In just over a hundred years - from the death of Muhammad in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750 - the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East....

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    • Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East
    • By: Tom Segev
    • Narrated by: James Boles
    • Length: 28 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-07
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Going far beyond a military account, Segev re-creates the crisis in Israel before 1967....

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    • The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance
    • By: Elizabeth F. Thompson
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when representative democracy became a political option for Arabs - and how the West denied the opportunity....

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    • Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads
    • By: David Rundell
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • David Rundell - one of America's foremost experts on Saudi Arabia - explains how the country has been stable for so long, why it is less so today, and what is most likely to happen in the future....

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    • The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness
    • By: Kenneth M. Pollack
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 24 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • Since the Second World War, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight. They have lost many wars that by all rights they should have won, and in their best performances only ever achieved quite modest accomplishments....

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    • The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
    • By: Ari Shavit
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 849 ratings
    • An authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of the most influential journalists writing about the Middle East today....

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    • The Landmark Library, Book 13
    • By: Justin Marozzi
    • Narrated by: Mark Elstob
    • Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In the seventh and eighth centuries AD, armies inspired by the new religion of Islam burst out of Arabia to subjugate the Levant, southwest Asia, North Africa and the Iberian peninsula....

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    • Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, Revised Edition
    • By: David K. Shipler
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 27 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • 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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    • The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
    • By: Amy Dockser Marcus
    • Narrated by: Joyce Bean
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Searching for the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict, historians for years focused on the British Mandate period. But the bloody struggle for power actually started much earlier....

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    • Day by Day and Minute by Minute the Historic Struggle for Jerusalem and the Birth of Israel
    • By: Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre
    • Narrated by: Theodore Bikel
    • Length: 23 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 644 ratings
    • O Jerusalem! is the epic drama of 1948, when Arabs and Jews fought for control of the city of Jerusalem...

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    • The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
    • By: Tom Holland
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 668 ratings
    • Tom Holland describes how the Arabs emerged to carve out a stupefyingly vast dominion in a matter of decades, overcoming seemingly insuperable odds....

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    • By: John McHugo
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The concise history reveals how the Arab world came to have its present form, why change was inevitable and what choices lie ahead following the Arab Spring....

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    • Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
    • By: S. Frederick Starr
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 25 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 503 ratings
    • Lost Enlightenment chronicles this forgotten age of achievement, seeks to explain its rise, and explores the competing theories about the cause of its eventual demise....

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