The timetable is the easiest of any market we serve, because the Gulf is only an hour behind Pakistan. After school, before Maghrib and after dinner are all ordinary teaching hours for the teacher, so a Gulf family chooses from the whole day rather than from what is left.
Why the hour matters so much
Most online Quran teachers are in Pakistan, Egypt or Jordan. For a family in London or Toronto that means someone is teaching at an awkward hour, and awkward hours are where tired teaching and cancelled lessons come from.
From the Gulf, a five o'clock lesson in Dubai is six in the evening in Lahore. Both sides are awake and neither is doing you a favour, which is the arrangement that lasts.
The two languages in a Gulf household
Most families who write to us from the Emirates are Pakistani or Indian. The parents speak Urdu, the children are in English-medium schools, and the grandparents on video call speak neither with much patience for translation.
- The lesson runs in English, in Urdu, or in both, and you can change it after the trial classes.
- The teacher speaks Urdu as a first language, so a parent sitting in follows the whole lesson.
- The reading itself is Arabic, with Tajweed corrected from the first Qaida lesson, whichever language is being spoken around it.
Fees and the school week
The school week in the Emirates runs Monday to Friday with the weekend free, so weekend mornings are open as well as weekday evenings. Fees are published in dirhams so you are not converting from dollars to compare us with anyone.
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Online Quran classes in the UAE
Times, fees in dirhams and how the classes run.
Fees
Every plan, in six currencies.