Al-Quds Bard Debate Union

AQBDU strongly condemns the Israeli attack on the besieged and heavily crowded Gaza Strip killing 65+ including 16+ children, and the Israeli targeting of civilian residential towers dropping hundreds into homelessness and poverty in a matter of seconds.


AQBDU ensures its solidarity with the people of Sheikh Jarrah confronting Israeli ethnic cleansing and displacement both recognized as war crimes. We are also in solidarity with the Palestinian people facing settler mob violence, police brutality and armed soldiers in hundreds of Palestinians cities and villages.

Today, Eid Al-Fitr is celebrated with heavy hearts and tears while are minds are with those wounded, displaced and killed.

كلية القدس بارد في جامعة القدس ما زالت تحصد المراكز المتقدمة في فن المناظرة.
تألق طلاب كلية القدس بارد يوم أمس، 2 نيسان 2020، في جلسة مناظرة عقدت من خلال منصة التواصل الالكترونية Zoom وجمعت شبكة كليات بارد حول العالم.
اذا كنت من مُحبي فن المناظرة تابع الصفحة واضغط ايقونة اعجبني لمتابعة نشاطات نادي المناظرة في الكلية.

AQB is still maintaining higher credits in debate sessions:

Yesterday, April 2nd. 2020, Al-Quds Bard College debate team participated in an online session that assembled Bard Network Debaters. One of the motions they debated was “whether Online Learning is the future form of Education.” Ramez Hayek, Current Debate Club leader, represented his teammates and gave an excellent performance. Hakam Abu Laban, AQB Student-Led Initiatives Coordinator, judged the round, and Ruth Zisma from Bard College, chaired it.

If you are interested in learning debate techniques and learning from the talented instructors and creative students, be sure to follow our page Al-Quds Bard Debate Union.

We are proud of our debater Dalia Alayassa who participated at the Empires Debates with Bard Debate Union and was placed as the 2nd ESL speaker!! She also participated at the George Washington Tournament last weekend!

Proud of our debater Leen Jayousi who is now debating with the AQU team at Asia championship in Malaysia

من مشاركة اتحاد مناظرات القدس بارد في بطولة جامعة النجاح يوم السبت المنصرم. وقد وصل فريقنا الى النهائي حيث كان موضوع المناظرة: يفضل هذا المجلس عالمًا بدون حكومات
سنوافيكم بمزيد من الصور

AQBDU today

AQBDU has voted in the students council election!
Have you?

It’s been a while since we last posted but we are back with good news!
Today 2 of our debaters Abdelrahman Mousa and Dalia Alayassa participated in Bard Network Online Debate.
The motion was: This House would prefer a world with one universal language. Our team debated opening opposition.

AQBDU second debate meeting!

See you next Monday, at 11 am.

We would like to invite you to our first debate meeting of the semester. New members are welcome to join from AQB and AQU, you do not need to have any debate experience. The meeting will be held in AQB room 119 during common hour (11am -12:30 pm). It will be an introductory session for new students to learn about the club and to plan for the upcoming semester.

ندعوكم لحضور اول لقاء لاتحاد المناظرات، جميع الطلاب مرحب بهم للانضمام و الحضور، لا يتطلب وجود اي خبرة في مجال المناظرات. اللقاء سيقام غدا الاثنين في كلية بارد غرفة ١١٩ على ساعة ١١.

We are so pleased to announce that the International Palestine Debate Academy from June 8th-11th was a success. We are proud of all of the participants that represented AlQuds Bard College for Arts and Sciences, Al-Quds University جامعة القدس, An-Najah National University, Arab American University / الجامعة العربية الأمريكية, Bethlehem University, Birzeit University | جامعة بيرزيت, and the Good Shepherd Swedish School as well as the overwhelming support from Athens EUDC 2019, Thailand World University Debating Championship and the sponsorship from Bard Center for Civic Engagement.

The first two days of the academy consisted of simultaneous day-long trainings held at Al Quds University and An-Najah National University. The latter half of the academy was a two-day national tournament held at the Arab American University in Ramallah. There were five open rounds of debates then finals with motions ranging from privacy vs public good, migration when weighing a country’s security, representation of developing countries, validity of vigilante groups, and choosing jobs of passion vs jobs of high-profile.

Congratulations to Mohammad Jubeh (An-Najah) and Taima Andulhadi (Birzeit) for winning first place in the tournament! We also want to congratulate AQB students Dhalia Alayassa and Ramez Hayek for winning 7th and 10th best speaker, respectively; and Mariam Alqam for winning 1st best novice speaker. Lastly, we would like to congratulate Zeina Melhem, who broke into the finals as a judge.

We’re back for today!
The fourth round of the tournament is about to start😍👏🏽

Info slide: you are a scientist. Whilst working alone in the lab you discover that the world is going to end in exactly one year, and that this is completely inevitable. As the only expert in the world in this particular subject, you are very certain no one is going to uncover this information.