Case study· 2024

TafsirKurd Center

TafsirKurd Center is a non-political, non-partisan Islamic platform for Kurdish Muslims, founded in Duhok. What began as one Quran page in 2024 is now a team serving the deen in three ways: the TafsirKurd app, with more than 10,000 downloads; videos about the deen with scholars on TafsirKurd Clips; and the Quran shared every day — with eighteen design campaigns around them.

Role: Founder — motion and graphics
Year: 2024
Discipline: Islamic Graphic Design, Islamic Motion & Video, Apps, Websites, Software & Development
Tools: APNs / Capacitor / Cloudflare Pages / Cloudflare Workers / Codemagic / Firebase Cloud Messaging / HTML & CSS / JavaScript / PostgreSQL / Supabase

TafsirKurd Center cover: the TafsirKurd calligraphic mark with “TafsirKurd Center — a non-political Islamic platform for Kurdish Muslims, serving the deen in three ways”, beside three cards: TafsirKurd App in green, TafsirKurd Clips in maroon and TafsirKurd in blue

What I did

01Founding and direction
02Brand
03Motion and graphics

Founded by: Saman Abdulrahman
Based in: Duhok, Kurdistan Region of Iraq
What it does: Apps for the deen, videos about the deen, and the Quran shared daily
App downloads: 10,000+
Pages: @tafsirkurd.center, @tafsirkurd, @tafsirkurd.app, @tafsirkurd.clips
Team: The TafsirKurd team

Overview

TafsirKurd Center serves the Book of Allah and the deen for Kurdish Muslims everywhere. It is non-political and non-partisan, and it is done for the sake of Allah.

It began with a single Quran page in March 2024. Today it is a team with three parts working under one name: apps for the deen, starting with the TafsirKurd app; videos about the deen with scholars, on TafsirKurd Clips; and the Quran itself, shared every day on TafsirKurd.

One name, four colours

Every part of the Center carries the same TafsirKurd mark in its own colour: black and white for the Center, blue for the daily Quran, green for the app and maroon for Clips.

TafsirKurd Center, since 2024: the TafsirKurd mark above “Serving the deen in three ways” and three cards — TafsirKurd App (@tafsirkurd.app) in green, TafsirKurd Clips (@tafsirkurd.clips) in maroon and TafsirKurd (@tafsirkurd) in blue

Chapter 01: The TafsirKurd app

The Center's first app brings the whole Quran to Kurdish readers — a Kurdish interpretation for every ayah, with prayer times and adhan, dhikr, tasbih, an Islamic library and video — on iOS, Android and the web.

It works fully offline, and more than 10,000 people have downloaded it.

TafsirKurd across iPad, iPhone and a home-screen widget: the Quran reader, prayer times, the video library and achievement badges

The TafsirKurd promo film — tap for sound.

The Quran with Kurdish tafsir
Islamic video
Prayer times and the Qibla

Chapter 02: TafsirKurd Clips

Talks about the deen by scholars and teachers, speaking in Kurdish. Each one takes a single subject and gives it a few minutes, filmed in a studio set and produced by the Center for @tafsirkurd.clips. Tap a video for sound.

Mala Ali Duhoki — the punishment of the grave
Mala Husen Kawashi — following the Sunnah
Dr. Mohammed Amin — the Fajr prayer

Chapter 03: TafsirKurd, the Quran daily

@tafsirkurd shares the Quran and nothing else: verses recited over calm visuals, with the Arabic text and its Kurdish meaning on screen.

Surah Al-Qadr
Surah Al-Anfal
Surah An-Najm

Chapter 04: Design and campaigns

Every launch and feature of the app gets its own campaign — a carousel that explains it and an animated story — alongside the daily series and seasonal work such as Ramadan. Green and cream alternate, so the feed reads as one brand.

Nine designs from eighteen campaigns, in Kurdish (Badini).