Middle East in History & Nonfiction Audiobooks

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Narcoterrorism

How Governments Around the World Have Used the Drug Trade to Finance and Further Terrorist Activities

by Rachel Ehrenfeld ...

Narrated by Matt The Robot, Mia The Robot ...

Unabridged

7 hours 45 min

Narcoterrorism by Rachel Ehrenfeld is a carefully-researched book documenting how, since the 1970s, governments around the world have initiated, developed, and in some cases, virtually dominated the drug trade in order to finance and further terrorist activities. Using data points never before pulled together into one volume, Ehrenfeld, a noted expert on narcoterrorism, maps how Bulgaria, Cuba, ... Read more

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Narcoterrorism by Rachel Ehrenfeld is a carefully-researched book documenting how, since the 1970s, governments around the world have initiated, developed, and in some cases, virtually dominated the drug trade in order to finance and further terrorist activities. Using data points never before pulled together into one volume, Ehrenfeld, a noted expert on narcoterrorism, maps how Bulgaria, Cuba,
... Read more
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Palestine in a World on Fire

Narrated by Zehra Jane Naqvi ...

Unabridged

8 hours 50 min

As more and more people align themselves with the Palestinian people, Palestine in a World on Fire provides the global perspective and analysis needed to inform how we forge ahead on this path of newfound solidarity. Editors Ilan Pappé and Katherine Natanel have gathered a collection of interviews that are intimate, challenging, and rigorous—many of them conducted before October 7th but still ... Read more

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As more and more people align themselves with the Palestinian people, Palestine in a World on Fire provides the global perspective and analysis needed to inform how we forge ahead on this path of newfound solidarity. Editors Ilan Pappé and Katherine Natanel have gathered a collection of interviews that are intimate, challenging, and rigorous—many of them conducted before October 7th but still
... Read more
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Red Line

The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World

by Joby Warrick ...

Narrated by Barrett Leddy ...

Unabridged

12 hours 17 min

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Black Flags comes the thrilling unknown story of America’s mission in Syria: to find and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons and keep them out of the hands of the Islamic StateIn August 2012, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war. When secret intelligence revealed that the dictator might resort to using chemical weapons ... Read more

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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Black Flags comes the thrilling unknown story of America’s mission in Syria: to find and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons and keep them out of the hands of the Islamic StateIn August 2012, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war. When secret intelligence revealed that the dictator might resort to using chemical weapons
... Read more
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Israel's Lobby

by Eli Clifton, Ian Lustick ...

Narrated by Pete Simonelli ...

Unabridged

9 hours 47 min

An unflinching exposé of Israel’s lobby, showing how its outsized influence works against our national interests and threatens our freedom.The greatest story in geopolitics and in American domestic affairs is how the far-right government of a small Middle Eastern country came to hold a controlling interest in United States foreign policy. Israel’s lobby is now in a position to police the speech of ... Read more

$26.99 USD

An unflinching exposé of Israel’s lobby, showing how its outsized influence works against our national interests and threatens our freedom.The greatest story in geopolitics and in American domestic affairs is how the far-right government of a small Middle Eastern country came to hold a controlling interest in United States foreign policy. Israel’s lobby is now in a position to police the speech of
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Ancient Anatolia: The History of the Region’s Most Powerful Cities, Kingdoms, and Empires in Antiquity

by Charles River Editors ...

Narrated by Victoria Woodson ...

Unabridged

17 hours 4 min

During the Late Bronze Age, from about 1500-1200 BCE, the Near East was a time and place where great kingdoms and empires vied for land and influence, playing high stakes diplomatic games, trading, and occasionally going to war with each other in the process. The Egyptians, Hittites, Babylonians, Assyrians, and several smaller Canaanite kingdoms were all part of this system, which was one of the ... Read more

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During the Late Bronze Age, from about 1500-1200 BCE, the Near East was a time and place where great kingdoms and empires vied for land and influence, playing high stakes diplomatic games, trading, and occasionally going to war with each other in the process. The Egyptians, Hittites, Babylonians, Assyrians, and several smaller Canaanite kingdoms were all part of this system, which was one of the
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Eichmann in Jerusalem

A Report on the Banality of Evil

by Hannah Arendt ...

Narrated by Wanda McCaddon ...

Unabridged

11 hours 22 min

Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in the New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic ... Read more

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Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in the New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic
... Read more
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In the Shadow of the Sword

The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire

by Tom Holland ...

Narrated by Steven Crossley ...

Unabridged

18 hours 11 min

The evolution of the Arab empire is one of the supreme narratives of ancient history, a story dazzlingly rich in drama, character, and achievement. In this exciting and sweeping history—the third in his trilogy of books on the ancient world—Tom Holland describes how the Arabs emerged to carve out a stupefyingly vast dominion in a matter of decades, overcoming seemingly insuperable odds to create ... Read more

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The evolution of the Arab empire is one of the supreme narratives of ancient history, a story dazzlingly rich in drama, character, and achievement. In this exciting and sweeping history—the third in his trilogy of books on the ancient world—Tom Holland describes how the Arabs emerged to carve out a stupefyingly vast dominion in a matter of decades, overcoming seemingly insuperable odds to create
... Read more
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Perfect Victims

and the Politics of Appeal

by Mohammed El-Kurd ...

Narrated by Mohammed El-Kurd ...

Unabridged

4 hours 48 min

"Mohammed El-Kurd has written a new Discourse on Colonialism for the twenty-first century." —Robin D. G. KelleyPerfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal—an ode to the steadfastness of a nation.Palestine is a microcosm of the world: on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified. While a settler colonial state continues to inflict devastating violence ... Read more

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"Mohammed El-Kurd has written a new Discourse on Colonialism for the twenty-first century." —Robin D. G. KelleyPerfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal—an ode to the steadfastness of a nation.Palestine is a microcosm of the world: on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified. While a settler colonial state continues to inflict devastating violence
... Read more
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Babylon

Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization

by Paul Kriwaczek ...

Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

Unabridged

12 hours 1 min

Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophisticated urban societies. In the cities that they built, half of human history took place.In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements seven thousand years ... Read more

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Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophisticated urban societies. In the cities that they built, half of human history took place.In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements seven thousand years
... Read more
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We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled

Voices from Syria

by Wendy Pearlman ...

Narrated by Erin Bennett, Assaf Cohen, Susan Nezami ...

Unabridged

6 hours

Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight.Against the backdrop of the wave of demonstrations known as the Arab Spring, in 2011 hundreds of thousands of Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom, ... Read more

$23.99 USD

Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight.Against the backdrop of the wave of demonstrations known as the Arab Spring, in 2011 hundreds of thousands of Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom,
... Read more
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Istanbul

A Tale of Three Cities

by Bettany Hughes ...

Narrated by Bettany Hughes ...

Unabridged

24 hours 35 min

Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact.From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul -- resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital city of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires. For ... Read more

$44.99 USD

Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact.From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul -- resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital city of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires. For
... Read more
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Rome and Persia

The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry

by Adrian Goldsworthy ...

Narrated by Mark Elstob ...

Unabridged

20 hours 25 min

**The extraordinary history of the epic rivalry between the ancient world’s two great superpowers.“Magnificent.” —Spectator**The Roman Empire was like no other. Stretching from the north of Britain to the Sahara, and from the Atlantic coast to the Euphrates, it imposed peace and prosperity on an unprecedented scale. Its only true rival lay in the east, where the Parthian and then Persian empires ... Read more

$44.99 USD

**The extraordinary history of the epic rivalry between the ancient world’s two great superpowers.“Magnificent.” —Spectator**The Roman Empire was like no other. Stretching from the north of Britain to the Sahara, and from the Atlantic coast to the Euphrates, it imposed peace and prosperity on an unprecedented scale. Its only true rival lay in the east, where the Parthian and then Persian empires
... Read more
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Anti-Zionism

A Jewish History

by Benjamin Moser ...

Narrated by Benjamin Moser ...

Unabridged

14 hours 5 min

A sweeping and revelatory history of the hidden tradition of Jewish thinkers who opposed Zionism, from Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser.In Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History, Benjamin Moser uncovers a suppressed tradition that has shaped Jewish thought for generations. Through a cast of artists, rabbis, poets, lawyers, activists, journalists, and politicians—from Europe and Africa and Asia and ... Read more

$26.00 USD

A sweeping and revelatory history of the hidden tradition of Jewish thinkers who opposed Zionism, from Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser.In Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History, Benjamin Moser uncovers a suppressed tradition that has shaped Jewish thought for generations. Through a cast of artists, rabbis, poets, lawyers, activists, journalists, and politicians—from Europe and Africa and Asia and
... Read more
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A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict

by Ilan Pappe ...

Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...

Unabridged

3 hours 48 min

An indispensable guide to understanding the Israel–Palestine conflict, and how we might yet still find a way out of it."Ilan Pappe is the most original, radical and hard-hitting of Israel's 'new historians.'" —Avi Shlaim, author of Three WorldsThe devastation of 7 October 2023 and the horrors that followed astounded the world. But the Israel–Palestine conflict didn't start on 7 October. It didn't ... Read more

$13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

An indispensable guide to understanding the Israel–Palestine conflict, and how we might yet still find a way out of it."Ilan Pappe is the most original, radical and hard-hitting of Israel's 'new historians.'" —Avi Shlaim, author of Three WorldsThe devastation of 7 October 2023 and the horrors that followed astounded the world. But the Israel–Palestine conflict didn't start on 7 October. It didn't
... Read more
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God's Shadow

Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World

by Alan Mikhail ...

Narrated by James Cameron Stewart ...

Unabridged

16 hours 11 min

Long neglected in world history, the Ottoman Empire was a hub of intellectual fervor, geopolitical power, and enlightened pluralistic rule. At the height of their authority in the sixteenth century, the Ottomans controlled more territory and ruled over more people than any world power, forcing Europeans out of the Mediterranean and to the New World.Yet, despite its towering influence and ... Read more

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Long neglected in world history, the Ottoman Empire was a hub of intellectual fervor, geopolitical power, and enlightened pluralistic rule. At the height of their authority in the sixteenth century, the Ottomans controlled more territory and ruled over more people than any world power, forcing Europeans out of the Mediterranean and to the New World.Yet, despite its towering influence and
... Read more
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The Iron Cage

The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood

by Rashid Khalidi ...

Narrated by Shawn K. Jain ...

Unabridged

9 hours 32 min

At a time when a lasting peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis seems unattainable, understanding the roots of their conflict is an essential step in restoring hope to the region. In The Iron Cage, Rashid Khalidi provides a lucid context for the realities on the ground today, a context that has been, until now, notably lacking in our discourse.The story of the Palestinian search to ... Read more

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At a time when a lasting peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis seems unattainable, understanding the roots of their conflict is an essential step in restoring hope to the region. In The Iron Cage, Rashid Khalidi provides a lucid context for the realities on the ground today, a context that has been, until now, notably lacking in our discourse.The story of the Palestinian search to
... Read more
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Weavers, Scribes, and Kings

A New History of the Ancient Near East

by Amanda H. Podany ...

Narrated by Amanda H. Podany ...

Unabridged

18 hours 26 min

In this sweeping history of the ancient Near East, Amanda Podany takes listeners on a gripping journey from the creation of the world's first cities to the conquests of Alexander the Great. The book is built around the life stories of many ancient men and women, from kings, priestesses, and merchants to brickmakers, musicians, and weavers. Their habits of daily life, beliefs, triumphs, and crises, ... Read more

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In this sweeping history of the ancient Near East, Amanda Podany takes listeners on a gripping journey from the creation of the world's first cities to the conquests of Alexander the Great. The book is built around the life stories of many ancient men and women, from kings, priestesses, and merchants to brickmakers, musicians, and weavers. Their habits of daily life, beliefs, triumphs, and crises,
... Read more
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Israel

What Went Wrong?

by Omer Bartov ...

Narrated by James McNaughton ...

Unabridged

8 hours 9 min

A leading Israeli American scholar of the Holocaust explores and explains his native country's intensifying turn toward violence and exclusion.The distinguished historian Omer Bartov was born on a kibbutz, grew up in Tel Aviv, and served in the Israel Defense Forces during the Yom Kippur War. He went on to become a leading scholar of the German army and the Holocaust, before turning his attention ... Read more

$24.99 USD

A leading Israeli American scholar of the Holocaust explores and explains his native country's intensifying turn toward violence and exclusion.The distinguished historian Omer Bartov was born on a kibbutz, grew up in Tel Aviv, and served in the Israel Defense Forces during the Yom Kippur War. He went on to become a leading scholar of the German army and the Holocaust, before turning his attention
... Read more
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Saudi Arabia

A Modern History

by David Commins ...

Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...

Unabridged

11 hours 43 min

A major new history of Saudi Arabia, from its eighteenth-century origins to the present daySaudi Arabia is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, a major player on the international stage and the site of Islam's two holiest cities. It is also one of the world's only absolute monarchies. How did Saudi Arabia get to where it is today?In this comprehensive account, David Commins narrates the ... Read more

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A major new history of Saudi Arabia, from its eighteenth-century origins to the present daySaudi Arabia is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, a major player on the international stage and the site of Islam's two holiest cities. It is also one of the world's only absolute monarchies. How did Saudi Arabia get to where it is today?In this comprehensive account, David Commins narrates the
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Games without Rules

The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan

by Tamim Ansary ...

Narrated by Tamim Ansary ...

Unabridged

14 hours 40 min

Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real, but it sits atop an older struggle between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan—a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam.Now, Tamim Ansary draws on his ... Read more

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Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real, but it sits atop an older struggle between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan—a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam.Now, Tamim Ansary draws on his
... Read more
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Order of Assassins, The: The History and Legacy of the Secretive Persian Sect during the Middle Ages

by Charles River Editors ...

Narrated by Daniel Houle ...

Unabridged

1 hour 49 min

Like the shinobi, more commonly known as the ninja, the assassin is yet another fabled figure with ancient roots that remains astonishingly relevant to this day. Assassins in the context of contemporary pop culture often conjure up images of brooding, silver-tongued individuals in peak physique, equipped with impeccable style, flawless marksmanship, and exemplary hand-to-hand combat skills. Others ... Read more

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Like the shinobi, more commonly known as the ninja, the assassin is yet another fabled figure with ancient roots that remains astonishingly relevant to this day. Assassins in the context of contemporary pop culture often conjure up images of brooding, silver-tongued individuals in peak physique, equipped with impeccable style, flawless marksmanship, and exemplary hand-to-hand combat skills. Others
... Read more
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The Good Shepherd

A Thousand-Year Journey from Psalm 23 to the New Testament

by Kenneth E. Bailey ...

Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne ...

Unabridged

10 hours 5 min

"The Lord is my shepherd."Thus begins the most beloved of all Psalms—and thus begins a thousand-year journey through the Bible. Prophets, apostles, and Jesus himself took up this image from David, reshaping it, developing it, and applying it to their own situations and needs. Kenneth Bailey uses his celebrated insights into Middle Eastern culture, especially his familiarity with Middle Eastern ... Read more

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"The Lord is my shepherd."Thus begins the most beloved of all Psalms—and thus begins a thousand-year journey through the Bible. Prophets, apostles, and Jesus himself took up this image from David, reshaping it, developing it, and applying it to their own situations and needs. Kenneth Bailey uses his celebrated insights into Middle Eastern culture, especially his familiarity with Middle Eastern
... Read more
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Storia di Istanbul: L'ascesa e la caduta della città un tempo chiamata Costantinopoli

by Italo Santoro ...

Narrated by Italo Santoro ...

Unabridged

2 hours 13 min

Vivi l'epica storia urbana di una metropoli immortale, sopravvissuta all'ascesa e alla caduta di tre grandi imperi. Perfetto per trasformare i tuoi spostamenti quotidiani in un viaggio immersivo nel tempo, questo ascolto ti trasporta dalle antiche strade greche di Bisanzio al cuore pulsante del Medio Oriente.Più che un semplice scenario di guerre e conquiste, questa vibrante capitale cosmopolita ... Read more

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Vivi l'epica storia urbana di una metropoli immortale, sopravvissuta all'ascesa e alla caduta di tre grandi imperi. Perfetto per trasformare i tuoi spostamenti quotidiani in un viaggio immersivo nel tempo, questo ascolto ti trasporta dalle antiche strade greche di Bisanzio al cuore pulsante del Medio Oriente.Più che un semplice scenario di guerre e conquiste, questa vibrante capitale cosmopolita
... Read more
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Brève histoire de l’Arabie saoudite : Comment le pétrole a transformé le berceau de l’islam

by Grégoire Delaunay ...

Narrated by Grégoire Delaunay ...

Unabridged

2 hours 14 min

Plongez dans l'histoire géopolitique d'un carrefour religieux devenu puissance mondiale grâce à la découverte de l'or noir. Parfait pour enrichir vos trajets quotidiens, ce récit immersif retrace l'évolution de la péninsule arabique, bien avant la fondation de l'État moderne. Laissez-vous transporter au cœur d'un territoire unique, tiraillé entre traditions ancestrales et bouleversements ... Read more

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Plongez dans l'histoire géopolitique d'un carrefour religieux devenu puissance mondiale grâce à la découverte de l'or noir. Parfait pour enrichir vos trajets quotidiens, ce récit immersif retrace l'évolution de la péninsule arabique, bien avant la fondation de l'État moderne. Laissez-vous transporter au cœur d'un territoire unique, tiraillé entre traditions ancestrales et bouleversements
... Read more

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