The scholar
An MPhil in History and a PhD in World History. Research taught him that every event has more than one cause — the habit at the heart of every top-band answer.
MPhil · PhD scholar
About Mr. Zunair
Twenty years of teaching history as a story.
Zunair Farooq is a historian first: an MPhil in History and a PhD scholar in World History, who has taught at universities, at some of Lahore’s best-known schools, and now at Greenhall Academy.
Pakistan Studies
Islamiyat
Lahore
MPhil in History ✓
PhD scholar, World History
8 years at universities
12+ years in Lahore schools
I don’t teach students to remember Pakistan’s history. I teach them to understand it — because a student who understands can answer any question an examiner invents.
— Zunair Farooq
Chapters of a career
Five chapters, one subject
The lecturer
Eight years as visiting faculty at universities, teaching history to undergraduates — and learning how to make a ninety-minute lecture land.
8 years · universitiesThe schoolteacher
More than twelve years in Lahore classrooms, at schools including Roots, The City School, LGS and Bahria. Year after year of O Level classes, one subject.
12+ years · schoolsGreenhall Academy
Pakistan Studies and Islamiyat for O Level, IGCSE, AQA and Edexcel at the DHA Phase 6, Gulberg and Bahria Town campuses.
Now teaching · October 2026The channel & the books
Thirty-nine free lectures on YouTube, the five-volume Masterclass Notes and The Road to A* — so no student has to learn this alone.
758 subscribers · and counting
What he teaches
Two subjects. Four boards.
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How he teaches
Three rules for every class
1
Story before facts
Students learn why things happened first. Once the story makes sense, the dates and names have somewhere to live.
2
Every answer has a shape
Four, seven and fourteen-mark questions each want something different. Students learn the shape until it’s automatic.
3
Practise like it’s May
Timed questions from the first month, marked the way examiners mark — so exam day feels like any other Tuesday.
خودی کو کر بلند اتنا کہ ہر تقدیر سے پہلےخدا بندے سے خود پوچھے بتا تیری رضا کیا ہے
Raise yourself so high that, before every decree of fate,
God Himself asks you: “Tell me, what is it you want?”
Allama Muhammad Iqbal · Bal-e-Jibril
From the classroom
A few photos on the desk
Pick them up, move them around.
