Arabic and Hebrew language tables occur weekly during the semester. Join us for Hebrew every Monday at 6:00 p.m. in the President's Room at Kline, or for Arabic every Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. in Kline Commons. Middle Eastern Studies also sponsors special academic and social events and encourages students to attend other campus events relating to the Middle East.

Upcoming Events

  • 2/26
    Thursday
    5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
  • 3/03
    Tuesday
    6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    Kline, College Room
  • 3/10
    Tuesday
    6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Kline, College Room
  • 3/17
    Tuesday
    6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Kline, College Room
  • 3/24
    Tuesday
    6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
    Kline, College Room

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2026

  Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Arabic Table 
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Kline, College Room  6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
Monday, February 23, 2026
POSTPONED: MES Spring Film Series Screening: Horses of God
Fractal Realities
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema  6:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Fractal Realities screening: Hamid and Yachine spend most of their days smoking pot in Casablanca’s biggest slum. After a stint in prison Hamid returns home a changed man: he is now a religious fundamentalist, and believes his younger brother has been chosen to become a martyr. The two must embark on a transformative journey. From filmmaker Nabil Ayouch comes a dramatic and dark mise-en-scène of a dispossessed youth in an economically fractured society. Horses of God is an invitation to reflect on personal agency, interpersonal violence, and systemic marginalization. Running time: 1 hour 55 minutes.
  Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Arabic Table 
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Kline, College Room  6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
  Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Arabic Table 
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Kline, College Room  6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
Monday, February 9, 2026
MES Spring Film Series
Fractal Realities

Bertelsmann Campus Center, Weis Cinema  6:00 pm EST/GMT-5
It was Just an Accident, dir. Jafar Panahi (2025). Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
 Vahid, an unassuming mechanic, has a chance encounter with Eghbal, a man he strongly suspects to be his former sadistic jailhouse captor. Panicked, Vahid gathers several former prisoners, all abused by that same captor, to try and confirm Eghbal's identity. As the bickering group drives around Tehran with the captive, they must confront how far to take matters into their own hands with their presumed tormentor. From master filmmaker Jafar Panahi comes a searing moral thriller that engages with complex ideas about the uncertainty of the truth and the choice between revenge and mercy, as Panahi turns his personal dissonance into a profound and galvanizing work of art.Watch the trailer here.
  Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Arabic Table 
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Kline, College Room  6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.
  Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Arabic Table 
Please join us weekly. Stay for as long as you like.
Kline, College Room  6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Language tables are held at Kline and entail about an hour of casual discussion during meal times, where students interested in a language get to know each other and practice colloquial conversations. They are held by the tutor of the language, and although sometimes professors join the table, it is a very low-stakes and fun setting to immerse yourself in a language, its culture and the foreign language community at Bard.

Scholarly Resources