History - Middle East

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My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tra...

Ari Shavit

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  Not since Thomas L. Friedman's groundbreaking From Beirut to Jerusalem has...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2013

Imperial Life in the Emerald City

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

The Washington Post’s former Baghdad bureau chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran takes us with him into the Zone: into a bubble, cut off from wartime realities, where the task of reconstructing a devastated nation competed with the distra...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jan 2007

No True Glory: Fallujah and the Strug...

Bing West

Looks at the events, personalities, and political maneuvering of the struggle to establish peace in Fallujah, following strategy discussions between military officers, dangerous night patrols with the U.S. Marines, and peace negotiati...

Abridged CD
Published: Sep 2005

Lemon Tree

Sandy Tolan

Describes how a simple act of faith and the relationship between two families--one Israeli, one Palestinian--represents a personal microcosm of decades of Israeli-Palestinian history and symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle Eas...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2006

Three Empires on the Nile: The Victor...

Dominic Green

A secular regime is toppled by Western intervention, but an Islamic backlash turns the liberators into occupiers. Caught between interventionists at home and fundamentalists abroad, a prime minister flounders as his ministers betray h...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2007

Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle...

Juan Cole

In this vivid and timely history, Juan Cole tells the story of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Revealing the young general's reasons for leading the expedition against Egypt in 1798 and showcasing his fascinating views of the Orient...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2007

Secrets of the Kingdom: The Inside St...

Gerald Posner

This investigative report on the House of Saud, and its connections to America's business and political communities, uncovers a wealth of information and asks some profoundly disturbing questions about what was long considered America...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jun 2005

Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Impe...

Scott Anderson

A New York Times Notable Book of 2013A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2013A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book of the YearAn NPR Great Read of 2013A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential per...

Paperback
Published: May 2014

Inside Iran: The Real History and Pol...

Medea Benjamin

U.S. relations with Iran have been fraught for decades, but under the Trump Administration tensions are rising to startling levels. Medea Benjamin, one of the best-known 21st century activists, offers the incredible history of how a p...

Paperback
Published: May 2018

ISIS: A History

Fawaz A. Gerges

The Islamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. What explains the rise of ISIS and what does it portend for the future of the Middle East? In this book, one of the wor...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2017

Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, M...

Robert Lacey

"It's all here-Islam, the family tree, a sea of oil and money to match, palace intrigue...This is high drama and an epic tale." -Tom Brokaw Though Saudi Arabia sits on one of the richest oil deposits in the world, it also p...

Paperback
Published: Oct 2010

90 Minutes at Entebbe: The Full Insid...

William Stevenson

The incredible story of an Israeli mission that rescued 103 hostages from a hijacked jetliner.On June 27, 1976, Air France Flight 139 was hijacked by terrorists and flown to Entebbe Airport in Uganda. In the following agonizing days, ...

Paperback
Published: Jan 2015

All the Shah's Men: An American Coup ...

Stephen Kinzer

In this investigative report, a journalist exposes the role played by the United States, through the CIA, in a coup that overthrew Iran's leader Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953. This coup put in place the Shah, whose hated dictatorship was...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2004

On Wings of Eagles

Ken Follett

When two of his American employees were held hostage in Iran, H. Ross Perot and a select group of his employees took matters into their own hands.

Paperback
Published: Jun 1993

No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope...

Rania Abouzeid

"Rania Abouzeid has produced a work of stunning reportage from the very heart of the conflict, daring to go to the most dangerous places in order to get the story." ―Dexter Filkins, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The For...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2019

A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind...

Michael Axworthy

Iran is a land of contradictions. It is an Islamic republic, but one in which only 1.4 percent of the population attend Friday prayers. Iran's religious culture encompasses the most censorious and dogmatic Shi'a Muslim clerics in the ...

Paperback
Published: May 2016

Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and t...

John B. Judis

A probing look at one of the most incendiary subjects of our time—the relationship between the United States and IsraelThere has been more than half a century of raging conflict between Jews and Arabs—a violent, costly struggle t...

Paperback
Published: Feb 2015

Iran: A Beginner's Guide

Homa Katouzian

As the Western-Iranian impasse continues to dominate international affairs, politicians and the media confidently proclaim Iran the greatest threat to the Western World. But this villainous mask obscures a far more complex identity fo...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2013

Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, M...

Robert Lacey

Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox. It is a modern state driven by contemporary technology and possessed of vast oil deposits, yet its powerful religious establishment would have its customs and practices rolled back a thous...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Oct 2009

The Places In Between

Rory Stewart

In January 2002, Rory Stewart survived a walk across Afghanistan by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. In this memoir, he writes about heroes and rogues, tribal elders and te...

Paperback
Published: May 2006

Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Pr...

David K. Shipler

In this monumental work, David Shipler, award-winning correspondent for The New York Times, examines the forces that contribute to the mutual aversion and hatred in Israel.

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Oct 2007

Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Impe...

Scott Anderson

[Read by Malcolm Hillgartner] *Includes a bonus PDF with photos A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in twentieth century history -- the Arab Revolt and the secret game to control the ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2013

A Concise History of the Middle East ...

Arthur Goldschmidt

The ninth edition of this widely acclaimed text has been extensively revised to reflect the latest scholarship and the most recent events in the Middle East. As an introduction to the history of this turbulent region from the beginnin...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2010

A History of the Middle East

Peter Mansfield

In this masterly work of synthesis, Peter Mansfield, drawing on his experience as a journalist and a historian, explores two centuries of history in the Middle East. He forms a picture of the historical, political, and social history ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2006

The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in ...

Steve Coll

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the national bestseller Ghost Wars, Steve Coll presents the story of the Bin Laden family's rise to power and privilege, revealing new information to show how American influences changed th...

Abridged CD
Published: Apr 2008

The Walls of Israel

Surrounded on all borders but its western coastline by hostile and aggressive neighbors, the state of Israel resembles the walled city of the Middle Ages. But its walls are not stone and mortar, they are flesh and blood—they are the...

Paperback
Published: Apr 2014

In the Company of Soldiers

Rick Atkinson

For soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division, the road to Baghdad began with a midnight flight out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, in late February 2003. For Rick Atkinson, who would spend nearly two months covering the division for The Wa...


Published: Feb 2005

Under Fire: The Untold Story of the A...

Fred Burton

The explosive inside account of the attack against the U.S. diplomatic and intelligence outposts in Benghazi, LibyaOn the night of September 11, 2012, the American diplomatic mission at Benghazi, Libya, came under ferocious attack by ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2013

A Brief History of the Middle East

Christopher Catherwood

For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology, and medicine, and were militarily far more powerful. It took another three hundred years for the West to catch up and overtake the Middle East....

Paperback
Published: Apr 2011

Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Co...

Michael Chabon

A Paperback OriginalA groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of fifty years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and GazaIn Kingdom of Olives and Ash, Michael Chabon a...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2017
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