Audiobooks for Arab American Heritage Month

Making the Arab World

Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East

By: Fawaz A. Gerges
Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
Length: 18 hours 36 minutes

In 2013, just two years after the popular overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military ousted the country's first democratically elected president—Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood—and subsequently led a brutal repression of the Islamist group. These bloody events echoed an older political rift in Egypt and the Middle East: the... Read more

We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders

A Memoir of Love and Resistance

By: Linda Sarsour
Narrated by: Linda Sarsour
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Linda Sarsour, co-organizer of the Women’s March, shares an “unforgettable memoir” (Booklist) about how growing up Palestinian Muslim American, feminist, and empowered moved her to become a globally recognized activist on behalf of marginalized communities across the country.

On a chilly spring morning in Brooklyn, nineteen-year-old Linda Sarsour... Read more

Against the Loveless World

A Novel

By: Susan Abulhawa
Narrated by: Susan Abulhawa
Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

Arab American Book Award Winner
2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist
2020 Athenaeum Literary Award Finalist
2020 Palestine Book Awards Winner
Longlisted for Rathbones Folio Prize

“Susan Abulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior; she looks into the darkest crevices of lives, conflicts, horrendous injustices, and dares to shine light that can... Read more

The Other Americans

A Novel

By: Laila Lalami
Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò, P.J. Ochlan, Adenrele Ojo, Ozzie Rodriguez, Susan Nezami, Ali Nasser, Mark Bramhall, Max Adler & Meera Simhan
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction
Finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Fiction
Winner of the Arab American Book Award in Fiction
Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, the Washington Post, BookPage, NPR, the Guardian, Variety, New York Public Library, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Dallas Morning News, and Kirkus Reviews. 

From the Pulitzer... Read more

Alligator and Other Stories

By: Dima Alzayat
Narrated by: Jeed Saddy
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayat's collection, Alligator and Other Stories, are luminous and tender, whether dealing with a woman preforming burial rites for her brother in "Ghusl," or the great-aunt struggling to explain cultural identity to her niece in "Once We Were Syrians."



Alzayat's stories are rich and relatable, chronicling a... Read more

A Woman Is No Man

A Novel

By: Etaf Rum
Narrated by: Ariana Delawari, Dahlia Salem & Susan Nezami
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

“A Woman Is No Man gives a rare and terrifying look into the lives of three generations of Palestinian and Palestinian-American women. Readers are invited into the secret world of these women living in Palestine and then Brooklyn; we watch nervously as they try to navigate and reconcile their two worlds — the violent, patriarchal world at home... Read more

Arab Boy Delivered

A Novel

By: Paul Aziz Zarou
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

As Michael maneuvers through his working-class neighborhood delivering groceries, he enters the homes and lives of his customers. He’s confronted by the school yard and street corner violence of local thugs. With the 1967 Arab-Israeli War fresh in public memory, he passes for Greek or Italian and never summons the courage to explain, exactly,... Read more

You Exist Too Much

A Novel

By: Zaina Arafat
Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

“Zaina Arafat’s You Exist Too Much is one of my favorite books of the year. This debut novel blew me away. Arafat’s narrator is confident in her vulnerability; her desire to be seen and understood is visceral and uncomfortably familiar. The intoxication of unrequited love and the disconcerting feeling that can accompany settling down are... Read more

Love Is an Ex-Country

By: Randa Jarrar
Narrated by: Randa Jarrar
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

“Randa Jarrar’s intimate memoir is nothing short of monumental. Intelligent, tender, and lacerating in equal measure, Love Is an Ex-Country takes readers on a journey across the U.S., probing what it means to live fully in a hostile environment and contemplate survival in the face of erasure. Jarrar navigates the profound with a light touch and... Read more

A Very Large Expanse of Sea

By: Tahereh Mafi
Narrated by: Priya Ayyar
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

A National Book Award Longlist title!From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Shatter Me series comes a powerful, heartrending contemporary novel about fear, first love, and the devastating impact of prejudice.
It’s 2002, a year after 9/11. It’s an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially so for someone like... Read more

Other Words for Home

By: Jasmine Warga
Narrated by: Vaneh Assadourian
Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

“The new words, tasting like America, on our lips." A beautifully-written story of a young Syrian girl's journey to Cincinnati and learning to live her everyday life of a school kid in America. Jude struggles to be brave in making new friends, in auditioning for the school play and in thinking of her brother and father back home. Read more

Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus

Third Edition with Bonus Content, New Reflections

By: Nabeel Qureshi
Narrated by: Nabeel Qureshi, Michelle Qureshi, Mark Mittelberg & Lee Strobel
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 2015 Christian Book Award winner • Nabeel Qureshi describes his dramatic journey from Islam to Christianity in this expanded edition with new bonus content and reflections. "My friend Nabeel Qureshi was courageous enough to chase down the truth with intellectual integrity, no matter the personal cost," --Lee Strobel,... Read more

More Than a White Man's Religion

Why the Gospel Has Never Been Merely White, Male-Centered, or Just Another Religion

By: Abdu Murray
Narrated by: Abdu Murray
Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Read by the author.Though many today accuse Christianity of being a white, imperialistic religion, it is actually the source for cherished Western ideals of racial and gender equality. In More Than a White Man's Religion, author and speaker Abdu Murray shares stories from the Bible and his own experiences as a global apologist, a member of an... Read more

The War We Won Apart

The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII

By: Nahlah Ayed
Narrated by: Nahlah Ayed
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Love, betrayal, and a secret war: the untold story of two elite agents, one Canadian, one British, who became one of the most decorated couples of WWII.

On opposite sides of the pond, Sonia Butt, an adventurous young British woman, and Guy d’Artois, a French-Canadian soldier and thunderstorm of a man, are preparing... Read more

Crescent - Abridged

By: Diana Abu-Jaber
Narrated by: Nike Doukas & Marcelo Tubert
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

An Arab-American Chocolat—a sensual blend of food, love and longing. Read more

The Dream Palace of the Arabs

A Generation's Odyssey

By: Fouad Ajami
Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

From Fouad Ajami, an acclaimed author and chronicler of Arab politics, comes a compelling account of how a generation of Arab intellectuals tried to introduce cultural renewals in their homelands through the forces of modernity and secularism. Ultimately, they came to face disappointment, exile, and, on occasion, death. Brilliantly weaving... Read more

Imperial Life in the Emerald City

Inside Iraq’s Green Zone

By: Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Narrated by: Ray Porter
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

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