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A Country Between
- Making a Home Where Both Sides of Jerusalem Collide
- Written by: Stephanie Saldana
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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When American writer Stephanie Saldana finds herself in an empty house at the beginning of Nablus Road, she is a new wife trying to navigate a fragile terrain....
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All of Us, We All Are Arameans
- Written by: Eileen Pollack
- Narrated by: Julie McKay
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Stuck with a plane ticket to Israel bought for her by a Polish Catholic ex-boyfriend, Eileen Pollack sets out on a hectic, solitary journey around the country....
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A Crack in the Earth
- A Journey up Israel's Rift Valley
- Written by: Haim Watzman
- Narrated by: Ken Kliban
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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In the autumn of 2004, as his country was riven by a fierce debate over its borders, Haim Watzman took a two-week journey up the Jordan Rift Valley....
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The Dead Sea and the Jordan River
- Written by: Barbara Kreiger
- Narrated by: Becky White
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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For centuries travelers have been drawn to the stunning and mysterious Dead Sea and Jordan River....
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Full Moon over Noah's Ark
- An Odyssey to Mount Ararat and Beyond
- Written by: Rick Antonson
- Narrated by: James Conlan
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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Mount Ararat is the most fabled mountain in the world. For millennia, this massif in eastern Turkey has been rumored as the resting place of Noah's Ark following the Great Flood....
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Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets
- An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen
- Written by: Laura Kasinof
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Laura Kasinof studied Arabic in college and moved to Yemen a few years later - after a friend at a late-night party in Washington, DC, recommended the country as a good place to work....
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A Country Between
- Making a Home Where Both Sides of Jerusalem Collide
- Written by: Stephanie Saldana
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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When American writer Stephanie Saldana finds herself in an empty house at the beginning of Nablus Road, she is a new wife trying to navigate a fragile terrain....
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All of Us, We All Are Arameans
- Written by: Eileen Pollack
- Narrated by: Julie McKay
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
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Stuck with a plane ticket to Israel bought for her by a Polish Catholic ex-boyfriend, Eileen Pollack sets out on a hectic, solitary journey around the country....
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A Crack in the Earth
- A Journey up Israel's Rift Valley
- Written by: Haim Watzman
- Narrated by: Ken Kliban
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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In the autumn of 2004, as his country was riven by a fierce debate over its borders, Haim Watzman took a two-week journey up the Jordan Rift Valley....
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The Dead Sea and the Jordan River
- Written by: Barbara Kreiger
- Narrated by: Becky White
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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For centuries travelers have been drawn to the stunning and mysterious Dead Sea and Jordan River....
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Full Moon over Noah's Ark
- An Odyssey to Mount Ararat and Beyond
- Written by: Rick Antonson
- Narrated by: James Conlan
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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Mount Ararat is the most fabled mountain in the world. For millennia, this massif in eastern Turkey has been rumored as the resting place of Noah's Ark following the Great Flood....
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Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets
- An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen
- Written by: Laura Kasinof
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
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Laura Kasinof studied Arabic in college and moved to Yemen a few years later - after a friend at a late-night party in Washington, DC, recommended the country as a good place to work....
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In-Flight Turkish
- Learn Before You Land
- Written by: Living Language
- Narrated by: Living Language
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
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Living Language In-Flight Turkish is the perfect boarding pass to learning Turkish before you land. There's no better way to make use of all that spare time on a plane than to master the essentials of a language....
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Istanbul
- City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World
- Written by: Thomas F. Madden
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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For more than two millennia, Istanbul has stood at the crossroads of the world, perched at the very tip of Europe, gazing across the shores of Asia....
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Reports from Hell
- Written by: Chas Smith
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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A gonzo ride through war-torn Yemen as only Chas Smith could provide....
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Learn Turkish - Easy Reader - Easy Listener - Parallel Text Audio Course No. 3
- Written by: Polyglot Planet
- Narrated by: Kenan Bahar, Christopher Tester
- Length: 44 mins
- Unabridged
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We provide you with the right tools, energy and motivation for you to understand and speak Turkish confidently....
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Reluctant Warriors
- Written by: Nathan Szajnberg
- Narrated by: Bob Sterry
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Here are elite soldiers, kibbutz-born, battle-bred. Their stories reveal their minds and souls, and what has tempered and annealed their hearts. They are citizen soldiers all....
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Walking the Bible
- A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses
- Written by: Bruce Feiler
- Narrated by: Bruce Feiler
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Abridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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The first person ever to complete the perilous 10,000 mile journey across the inscrutable desert landscape of the Middle East, Bruce Feiler, a fifth generation Southern Jew, embarks upon a quest to reconnect with the stories of the Bible, and uncover fresh answers to profound questions....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A fresh perspective on a very old story.
- By Trevor Hammond on 2019-10-03
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Yes, I Would Love Another Glass of Tea
- An American Woman's Letters to Turkey
- Written by: Katharine Branning
- Narrated by: Lisa Scott
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The author uses themes such as culture, art, religion, women and daily life, to reflect on those same topics as encountered during the author's past 30 years of travel in Turkey....
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Istanbul
- Memories and the City
- Written by: Orhan Pamuk
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2
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A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pamuk’s many faces mirror Istanbul’s
- By Bryan on 2019-08-17
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On Our Own in Jerusalem's Old City
- Written by: Vicki Andree
- Narrated by: Melissa Silvestro
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Join two born-again Christians exploring the Old City of Jerusalem without a tour group....
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The Monk of Mokha
- Written by: Dave Eggers
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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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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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful expression of grit.
- By Andy Riegl on 2019-08-29
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Shadow of the Silk Road
- Written by: Colin Thubron
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Colin Thubron undertakes a journey along the greatest land route on earth: the Silk Road....
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My Kazakhy
- Written by: Sal Ramirez
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Dodging secret police on the daily, and haggling prices for dried fruit and vintage leathers in heroin-laced bazaars, My Kazakhy is filled with all the gems you wouldn't expect....
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Dubai: Dubai Travel Guide: The 30 Best Tips For Your Trip To Dubai - The Places You Have To See
- Written by: Traveling The World
- Narrated by: Stoicescu Adrian Petru
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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This travel guide will serve as your bible when you go to prepare your tour around the whole of Dubai. Before we go any further, I want you to accept that Dubai is considered one of the most amazing cities on Earth and you’ll surely understand why once you are there. Listen to learn more....
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Arabian Sands
- Written by: Wilfred Thesiger
- Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Two Old Fools on a Camel
- Old Fools, Book 3
- Written by: Victoria Twead
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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From the New York Times best-selling author Victoria Twead comes the third in the Old Fools series. Reluctantly, Vicky and Joe leave their Spanish mountain village to work for a year in the Middle East....
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Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms
- Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East
- Written by: Gerard Russell
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms, former diplomat Gerard Russell ventures to the distant, nearly impassable regions where these mysterious religions still cling to survival....
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Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
- Written by: Lawrence Durrell
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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Lawrence Durrell's evocative memoir of living in Cyprus, just before the Greek/Turkish partition....
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The Rock, the Road, and the Rabbi
- My Journey into the Heart of Scriptural Faith and the Land Where It All Began
- Written by: Kathie Lee Gifford, Rabbi Jason Sobel
- Narrated by: Rabbi Jason Sobel, Kathie Lee Gifford
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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As a lifelong student of Scripture, Kathie Lee Gifford has always desired a deeper understanding of God's Word and a deeper knowledge of God Himself....
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Here's you're required optional heading.
- By Brad on 2018-06-02
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The Buried
- An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
- Written by: Peter Hessler
- Narrated by: Peter Hessler
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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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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Such a wonderful book!
- By cy. on 2019-08-22
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The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah
- Fear and Love in the Modern Middle East
- Written by: Adam Valen Levinson
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Armed only with college Arabic and restless curiosity, Adam Valen Levinson set out to "learn about the world 9/11 made us fear"....
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A Woman in Arabia
- The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
- Written by: Gertrude Bell, Georgina Howell - introduction, Georgina Howell - editor
- Narrated by: Sian Thomas, Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Gertrude Bell was leaning in 100 years before Sheryl Sandberg. One of the great woman adventurers of the 20th century, she turned her back on Victorian society to study at Oxford....
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Great Tours: Greece and Turkey, from Athens to Istanbul
- Written by: John R. Hale, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: John R. Hale
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
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Award-winning Professor John R. Hale of the University of Louisville is your guide to the fabulous civilizations of the Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and Ottomans, and to the natural wonders and idyllic landscapes that surround them....
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Dining with al-Qaeda
- Three Decades Exploring the Many Worlds of the Middle East
- Written by: Hugh Pope
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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An Oxford-educated scholar of the Middle East and a former foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, Hugh Pope lived and worked in two dozen countries throughout the region.....
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Palestinian Walks
- Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
- Written by: Raja Shehadeh
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Amid the many and varied tragedies of the Middle East, the loss of a simple pleasure such as the ability to roam the countryside at will may seem a minor matter. But in Palestinian Walks, Raja Shehadeh’s elegy for his lost footpaths becomes a heartbreaking metaphor....
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The Road to Oxiana
- Written by: Robert Byron
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Robert Byron set off from Venice with friend Christopher Sykes to explore the architecture of the Middle East. They travel by any means necessary and encounter several setbacks, but their risks are rewarded as they encounter some of the greatest examples of Eastern art and architecture....
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In a Time of Monsters
- Travels Through a Middle East in Revolt
- Written by: Emma Sky
- Narrated by: Emma Sky
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Returning to the UK in September 2010 after serving in Iraq as the political adviser to the top American general, Emma Sky felt no sense of homecoming. She soon found herself back in the Middle East traveling through a region in revolt....
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Tel Aviv Noir
- Written by: Etgar Keret (editor), Assaf Gavron (editor)
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Elizabeth Evans, Victor Bevine, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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For Tel Aviv Noir, Etgar Keret and Assaf Gavron have masterfully assembled some of Israel's top contemporary writers into a compulsively readable collection....
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A Year Under Sharia Law
- Memoir of an American Couple Living and Working in Saudi Arabia
- Written by: Alex Fletcher, Liz Fletcher
- Narrated by: Tyler Krzeszewski
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Three years into a financial crisis that shows no sign of loosening its grip, a young couple make the unpopular decision to teach English in Saudi Arabia. Little do they know that the experience will come with a price and change their lives in a profound way....
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Iranian Rappers and Persian Porn
- A Hitchhiker's Adventures in the New Iran
- Written by: Jamie Maslin
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Jamie Maslin decides to hitchhike the entire length of the Silk Road. Then, unexpectedly stranded in Iran, Maslin finds himself suddenly plunged into the subversive, contradictory world of Iranian subculture....
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Great Railway Bazaar
- Written by: Paul Theroux
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour....