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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
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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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The Nine Lives of Pakistan
- Dispatches from a Precarious State
- Written by: Declan Walsh
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times's most distinguished international correspondents. His portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals....
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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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A wonderful expression of grit.
- By Andy Riegl on 2019-08-29
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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
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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 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
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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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- By Brad on 2018-06-02
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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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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
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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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The Nine Lives of Pakistan
- Dispatches from a Precarious State
- Written by: Declan Walsh
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times's most distinguished international correspondents. His portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals....
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The Monk of Mokha
- Written by: Dave Eggers
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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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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A wonderful expression of grit.
- By Andy Riegl on 2019-08-29
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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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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 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
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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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- By Brad on 2018-06-02
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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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Istanbul
- Memories and the City
- Written by: Orhan Pamuk
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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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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Pamuk’s many faces mirror Istanbul’s
- By Bryan on 2019-08-17
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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
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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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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
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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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A fresh perspective on a very old story.
- By Trevor Hammond on 2019-10-03
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Shadow of the Silk Road
- Written by: Colin Thubron
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
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Colin Thubron undertakes a journey along the greatest land route on earth: the Silk Road....
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The Innocents Abroad
- Written by: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 24 hrs and 4 mins
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What do you get when you combine classic travel literature with the inimitable wit of Mark Twain? You get The Innocents Abroad....
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Chasing Utopia (Booktrack Edition)
- The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel
- Written by: David Leach
- Narrated by: Richard Clarkin
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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David Leach revisits his raucous memories of life as a kibbutz volunteer and returns to meet a new generation of Jewish and Arab citizens struggling to forge a better future together....
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Great Railway Bazaar
- Written by: Paul Theroux
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour....
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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
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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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The Land Beyond
- A Thousand Miles on Foot through the Heart of the Middle East
- Written by: Leon McCarron
- Narrated by: Leon McCarron
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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There are many reasons why it might seem unwise to walk, mostly alone, through the Middle East. That, in part, is exactly why Leon McCarron did it....
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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
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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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Arabian Sands
- Written by: Wilfred Thesiger
- Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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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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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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Baghdad Without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
- Written by: Tony Horwitz
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Brooks Horwitz
- Length: 8 hrs
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With razor-sharp wit and insight, intrepid journalist Tony Horwitz gets beyond solemn newspaper headlines and romantic myths of Arabia to offer startling close-ups of a volatile region few Westerners understand....
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The Road to Oxiana
- Written by: Robert Byron
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
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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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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
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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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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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Égypte Antique
- Les merveilles de l'archéologie
- Written by: Maria Pia Cesaretti, Silvia Einaudi, Maria Beatrice Galgano, and others
- Narrated by: Cyrille Alabouvette
- Length: 44 mins
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Un voyage fantastique vers la splendeur du Royaume des Pharaons : Alexandrie, Gizeh, Saqqara, Dendéra, Karnak, Louqsor, Deir el-Bahari, Deir el-Médineh...
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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
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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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The First Love Story
- Adam, Eve, and Us
- Written by: Bruce Feiler
- Narrated by: Bruce Feiler
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Walking the Bible and Abraham comes a revelatory journey across four continents and 4,000 years....
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Hebrew Phrase Book
- Read & Listen
- Written by: PROLOG Editorial
- Narrated by: PROLOG's Native Narrators
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
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In this course, you'll learn basic words and common sentences, so that you'll be able to understand what people are saying to you and even chat a bit - or at least say the right thing at the right time....
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My Wild Garden
- Notes from a Writer's Eden
- Written by: Meir Shalev, Joanna Chen
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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On the perimeter of Israel's Jezreel Valley, with the Carmel mountains rising up in the west, Meir Shalev has a beloved garden, "neither neatly organized nor well kept", as he cheerfully explains....
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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
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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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Palestinian Walks
- Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
- Written by: Raja Shehadeh
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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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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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
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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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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
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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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Israel for Travelers
- The Total Guide: The Comprehensive Traveling Guide for All Your Traveling Needs
- Written by: The Total Travel Guide Company
- Narrated by: Patricia Oliszynski
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
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When you decide to choose Israel for your next holiday, you know that you are in for the best experience of your life. There are so many things to see and discover in Israel, with the mix of new and old being almost intoxicating....
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Discover Morocco: The Ultimate Travel Guide for Exploring Morocco Like a Local
- Discover Travel Guides
- Written by: Joe Stanton
- Narrated by: Don Wang
- Length: 26 mins
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Are you planning a vacation in Morocco? Do you want to be well prepared and well informed before you leave? Now you can ready to enjoy the delights of this fascinating and historical country....
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The Roman Empire: The Empire of the Edomite
- Written by: William Beeston
- Narrated by: Troy Davis
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
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The author contends that the Roman Empire was of Edomite origin. He uses Jewish tradition, Hebrew and Phoenician etymology, and biblical prophecy to argue for a connection between the Empire and the ancient Kingdom of Edom which was a neighbor of ancient Israel....