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Down and Across
By: Arvin Ahmadi
Narrated by: Assaf Cohen
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
"John Green fans will appreciate this tale." —USA Today
"[A] humorous, deeply human coming-of-age story." —The Washington Post
Scott Ferdowsi has a track record of quitting. His best friends know exactly what they want to do with the rest of their lives, but Scott can hardly commit to a breakfast cereal, let alone a passion. With college... Read more
Frankenstein in Baghdad
By: Ahmed Saadawi
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Kaleo Griffith
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
*International Booker Prize finalist*
“Brave and ingenious.” —The New York Times
“Gripping, darkly humorous . . . profound.” —Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for Redeployment
“Extraordinary . . . A devastating but essential read.” —Kevin Powers, bestselling author and National Book Award finalist for The Yellow Birds
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The Last Girl
By: Nadia Murad
Narrated by: Ilyana Kadushin
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE • In this “courageous” (The Washington Post) memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story.
Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in northern Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her brothers and... Read more
American Radical
By: Tamer Elnoury & Kevin Maurer
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The explosive memoir of a Muslim American FBI agent fighting terror from the inside.
It’s no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad, global war against terror. But for the first time in this memoir, an active Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing down a terror cell in... Read more
A Horse Walks Into a Bar
By: David Grossman
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In a little dive in a small Israeli city, Dov Greenstein, a comedian a bit past his prime, is doing a night of standup. In the audience is a district court justice, Avishai Lazar, whom Dov knew as a boy, along with a few others who remember Dov as the awkward, scrawny kid who walked on his hands to confound the neighborhood bullies. Gradually,... Read more
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Headscarves and Hymens
By: Mona Eltahawy
Narrated by: Mona Eltahawy
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A passionate manifesto decrying misogyny in the Arab world, by an Egyptian American journalist and activist
When the Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy published an article in Foreign Policy magazine in 2012 titled "Why Do They Hate Us?" it provoked a firestorm of controversy. The response it generated, with more than four thousand posts on the... Read more
Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel
By: Sara Farizan
Narrated by: Negin Farsad
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Leila has made it most of the way through Armstead Academy without having a crush on anyone, which is a relief. As an Iranian American, she's different enough; if word got out that Leila liked girls, life would be twice as hard. But when beautiful new girl Saskia shows up, Leila starts to take risks she never thought she would.
As she carefully... Read more
If You Could Be Mine
By: Sara Farizan
Narrated by: Negin Farsad
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Seventeen-year-old Sahar has been in love with her best friend, Nasrin, since they were six. They’ve shared stolen kisses and romantic promises. But Iran is a dangerous place for two girls in love—Sahar and Nasrin could be beaten, imprisoned, even executed if their relationship came to light.
So they carry on in secret—until Nasrin’s parents... Read more
Equal of the Sun
By: Anita Amirrezvani
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 13 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Iran in 1576 is a place of peace, wealth, and dazzling beauty. But when the Shah dies without having named an heir, the court is thrown into tumult. Princess Pari, the Shah's daughter and closest adviser, knows more about the inner workings of the state than almost anyone, but the princess's maneuvers to instill order after her father's sudden... Read more
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Birds of Paradise
By: Diana Abu-Jaber
Narrated by: Tamara Marston
Length: 14 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Avis Muir is a brilliant pastry chef, Brian Muir a corporate real estate attorney. Their son, Stanley, is the proprietor of a trendy food market. Their beautiful daughter, Felice, is missing. A runaway at 13, Felice has spent five years modeling tattoos, skateboarding, clubbing, and sleeping in a squat house or on the beach. She’s about to turn... Read more
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Anatomy of a Disappearance
By: Hisham Matar
Narrated by: Khalid Abdalla
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Nuri is a young boy when his mother dies. It seems that nothing will fill the emptiness that her strange death leaves behind in the Cairo apartment he shares with his father. Until they meet Mona, sitting in her yellow swimsuit by the pool of the Magda Marina hotel. As soon as Nuri sees her, the rest of the world vanishes. But it is Nuri’s... Read more
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A History of the Arab Peoples
By: Albert Hourani
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 21 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Despite the turmoil of Arab nationalism and fundamentalism, Middle Eastern wars, and oil crises, the history of the Arab world has been little known and poorly understood in the West. One reason may be that, for more than half a century, there has been no up-to-date single-volume work that chronicles the story of Arab civilization—until... Read more
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Reset
By: Stephen Kinzer
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
What can the United States do to help realize its dream of a peaceful, democratic Middle East? Stephen Kinzer offers a surprising answer in this paradigm-shifting book. Two countries in the region, he argues, are America's logical partners in the twenty-first century: Turkey and Iran.
Besides proposing this new "power triangle," Kinzer... Read more
The Persian Night
By: Amir Taheri
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 14 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Three decades after Khomeinist thugs raided the US embassy in Tehran, Westerners are puzzled by Iran. As a nation, Iranians still like the United States; as a revolutionary regime, however, Iran is the principal bastion of anti-Americanism. As a nation-state, Iran is not concerned with the Palestinian issue; but as a revolutionary cause, the... Read more
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The Prophet
By: Kahlil Gibran
Narrated by: Jonathan Reese
Length: 2 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Kahlil Gibran—poet, philosopher, and artist—was born in Lebanon in 1883 but spent his final twenty years of life living in the United States. The three books that compose this audiobook are collections of Gibran's aphorisms, parables, and poetic essays.
The first book, The Prophet, was originally published in 1923 and is considered Gibran's... Read more
The Prophet, & The Wanderer
By: Khalil Gibran
Narrated by: Robert Glenister
Length: 3 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) was Lebanese by birth but spent a major part of his life in America in the early part of the twentieth century. He wrote many collections of stories with a wise or whimsical tone, but none more popular than The Prophet, his first collection, or The Wanderer, his final anthology. They are read here with great sympathy... Read more
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The Blood of Flowers
By: Anita Amirrezvani
Narrated by: Shohreh Aghdashloo
Length: 13 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
A sensuous and richly-imagined historical novel that centers on a skilled young carpet weaver, her arranged marriage, and her quest for self-determination in 17th-century Persia.
In 17th-century Iran, a 14-year-old woman believes she will be married within the year. But when her beloved father dies, she and her mother find themselves alone and... Read more
Leap of Faith
By: Noor al-Hussein
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 16 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Leap of Faith is the dramatic and inspiring story of an American woman’s remarkable journey into the heart of a man and his nation.Born into a distinguished Arab-American family and raised amid privilege, Lisa Halaby joined the first freshman class at Princeton to accept women, graduating in 1974 with a degree in architecture and urban planning.... Read more
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Bin Laden
By: Yossef Bodansky
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 21 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Who is Osama bin Laden—the only terrorist leader ever to have declared a holy war? What drives him and his followers to hate the Western civilization that has armed them? Bin Laden’s name has been linked to a number of incidents that have cost Americans their lives, most conspicuously, the catastrophic assaults on the World Trade Center and the... Read more
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The Prophet
By: Kahlil Gibran
Narrated by: Becky Ann Baker
Length: 1 hour 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Gibran considered The Prophet to be his greatest achievement. First published in 1923, The Prophet has been translated into more than twenty languages, and has become one of the beloved classics of our time. Cherished by millions, the universally inspiring words of The Prophet are here magnificently read aloud. Read more
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City
By: Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Narrated by: Ray Porter
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
The Washington Post’s former Baghdad bureau chief, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, takes us into the Green Zone, headquarters for the American occupation in Iraq. In this bubble separated from wartime realities, the task of reconstructing a devastated nation competes with the distractions of a Little America—a half-dozen bars, a disco, a shopping... Read more
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Crescent - Abridged
By: Diana Abu-Jaber
Narrated by: Nike Doukas & Marcelo Tubert
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
An Arab-American Chocolata sensual blend of food, love and longing. Read more
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