Middle East

Campus Life
Popular Twitch streamer Hasan "HasanAbi" Piker speaks

Socialist streamer Hasan Piker talks ‘imperialism,’ labor and politics

Daniel Xu
  •  
April 2
Campus Life
Omer Shem Tov stands on a stage, addressing a crowd of students

Israeli hostage Omer Shem Tov shares story of survival in Hamas captivity

Emerson Prentice
  •  
March 12
The Grind
Arabic calligraphy with the message "Love from Beirut to the world"

The guilt of the living

Sofia Baroudi
  •  
March 10
Campus Life
Stanford students protest the war in Iran.

Stanford protestors meet counterprotestors in rally against Iran war 

Daniel Xu
  •  
March 9
Academics
The front of Encina hall

Israel Studies Program underway, sparking both hope and criticism

Naomi Breuer and Ashton Dolce
  •  
Feb. 27
From the Community
Students make signs for Palestine at an encampment in White Plaza in 2023. (Photo: CAYDEN GU/The Stanford Daily)

From the Community | Stop patronizing pro-Palestinian students

From the Community
  •  
Jan. 13
University
Enchanted Broccoli Forest, a residential building, surrounded by trees.

University suspends EBF, Kairos after Title VI investigations

Francesca Pinney
  •  
July 22
Columnists
Bing Wing (West) entrance of Green Library, looking towards Hoover Tower on Stanford Campus.

Ganesan | Mission over money: The real Stanford vibe shift

Divya Ganesan
  •  
March 13, 2025
From the Community
Screen showing picture of Romi Gomen and last conversation she had with her mother before being taken hostage.

From the Community | I used to think my peers were antisemitic. Now, I’ve changed my mind.

From the Community
  •  
Jan. 30, 2025
News
A speaker stands at a podium in front of several audience members, while two other speakers sit at a table, one of them wearing a Halloween mask. A slideshow behind the speakers reads, "The Impact of Regional Conflict in MENA on Authoritarian Stability and Dissent."

Stanford experts detail democratic decline, authoritarian trends in the Middle East

Helen Katz
  •  
Nov. 4, 2024
Campus Life
Photo of Pigott Hall

‘Everything changed’: How professors are teaching about the Israel-Gaza war

Naomi Breuer
  •  
Oct. 23, 2024
The Grind
Photo of Hoover Tower, Green Library, and Meyer Green at night

‘A part of myself I do not yet know’: Notes from a community vigil

Stuti Desai
  •  
Oct. 3, 2024
From the Community
Main Quad

From the Community | On language, silence and the sit-in

From the Community
  •  
Dec. 8, 2023
News
Hoover Tower above sandstone buildings, purple and pink sky in the background

Janine Zacharia on covering Israel and Palestine amid the ‘fog of war’

Andrew Zeng
  •  
Dec. 7, 2023
News
Wikimedia Commons

‘We’re just destroying ourselves’: H.R. McMaster courts controversy at SIG event

Matthew Turk
  •  
May 21, 2021
Campus Life
(Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

‘Elegant and simple’: Students launch independent newspaper based in Egypt

Janya Sundar
  •  
Aug. 6, 2020
Reads
Adania Shibli's new novel revolves around a young woman's quest to understand the capture and rape of a Palestinian teenager in 1949. (Photo: New Directions)

‘Minor Details’ hiding in the desert sands

Jasmine Liu
  •  
May 23, 2020
Opinions
a young woman with a "No War with Iran" protest sign

Young people are consistent on war

Cyrus Beschloss
  •  
March 3, 2020
Op-Ed Columnist
A man washes "Yankee Go Home" from a wall during a citywide cleanup following the 1953 coup d'état in the Iranian capital of Tehran. (Courtesy of AP)

WWIII memes betray our lack of empathy — and knowledge of history

Emily Wilder
  •  
Jan. 26, 2020
News
Stanford students and faculty visited Saudi Arabia in 2013 as part of a partnership with Saudi university KFUPM and Saudi Aramco, the state oil company / Courtesy of Donald Lowe

Despite political tensions, Stanford’s Saudi partnerships continue with little scrutiny

Daniel Yang and Hannah Knowles
  •  
April 25, 2019
The Stanford Daily

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