Arabian History

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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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    • 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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    • By: Wilfred Thesiger
    • Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-18
    • Language: English
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    • Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger’s stunning account of five years spent crossing the Arabian Peninsula by foot and on camels, with nomadic Bedouin tribesmen as guides....

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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
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    • 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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    • 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 173 ratings
    • This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West....

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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 361 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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    • 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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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Peter Adamson
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 11-23-21
    • Language: English
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    • In the history of philosophy, few topics are so relevant to today's cultural and political landscape as philosophy in the Islamic world. Yet, this remains one of the lesser-known philosophical traditions....

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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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    • The Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870-1920
    • By: Neil Faulkner
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 18 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The Ottoman Sultan called for a "Great Jihad" against the Entente powers at the start of the First World War. He was building on half a century of conflict between British colonialism and the people of the Middle East and North Africa....

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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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    • Based on the Life of the Famous Arabian Horse Witez II
    • By: M.J. Evans
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-24
    • Language: English
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    • Inspired by a true story, The Stallion and His Peculiar Boy will touch your heart as no other horse story has before. World War II is raging. ...

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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 944 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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    • 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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    • The History of the Arabian Peninsula's Unification and the Discovery of Oil
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Ken Teutsch
    • Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • At the conclusion of World War I, a once promised unified Arab state did not materialize....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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