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Client work · 2026

Kurdistan Women’s Union

The electronic library

WebsiteUI/UX designContent managementCatalogue importHosting and domain

Library · partukyak.orgPrinted books · partukyak.org/books.htmlPDF and audio · partukyak.org/pdf.html

Kurdistan Women’s Union

An electronic library for the Zin Cultural Centre of the Kurdistan Women’s Union, founded in 1952: 888 printed books to request, 84 PDFs to read and audio books to listen to, in Sorani Kurdish from right to left.

Client
Kurdistan Women’s Union, women’s organisation
What we did
Website, UI/UX design, Content management, Catalogue import, Hosting and domain
Typefaces
Noto Naskh Arabic (kurdish text)
Live
partukyak.orgpartukyak.org/books.htmlpartukyak.org/pdf.html
Year
2026
The home page of the electronic library on a desktop: the union’s name and the Zin Cultural Centre in large Kurdish type on lavender, with the logo in a gold ring and two buttons for books and audio.

Built for the people who run it.

The library’s catalogue lived in spreadsheets. We designed and built a website where anyone can see what the library holds, read and listen online, and ask to borrow a printed book, then moved the whole catalogue into it.

The people who add books are not developers, so the admin panel is in Kurdish, each entry is one short form, and a new book is on the site about a minute after it is saved. There is no server and no database to look after. The only running cost is the domain name.

Live · Library

A library that opens in Kurdish.

The home page leads to every section: printed books, PDFs, audio books, the gallery, a form for authors who want the union to print their work, and the way to the library itself. Every page is set right to left in Noto Naskh Arabic, with its numbers in Eastern Arabic numerals, and works the same on a phone.

Visit partukyak.org
The sections of the library on a desktop: white cards for printed books, PDFs, audio books, the gallery and author support, each with a short line in Kurdish.
The home page on a phone: the Kurdish headline, an introduction, a purple button for books and an outlined one for audio, then the library’s numbers in gold.
The PDF shelf on a phone: a search field, category filters and a purple card with a book cover and a read button.

Live · Printed books

Every printed book, one request away.

The catalogue lists 888 titles by subject: history, politics, health, literature and art, and research, with a separate list of 102 books by women authors. A visitor searches by title or author, presses the request button and sends the library a phone number and how long they want the book.

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The printed catalogue on a desktop: subject filters above a table of history books with title, author, category and a purple request button on each row.
The printed catalogue on a phone: the same table with titles wrapping onto several lines and the request button kept on every row.

Live · PDF and audio

Read it here, or listen.

The PDF shelf holds 84 books that open in the browser, sorted into history, poetry, novels, memoir, magazines, research and women’s issues. Audio books sit on the same kind of card and play on YouTube or from chapters the library uploads.

Visit partukyak.org/pdf.html
The PDF shelf on a desktop: ten category filters and a row of five gradient cards, each with a book cover, its title and a read button.
The audio books on a phone: a pink card with a book cover, the title, the narrator and a listen button.

Everything we delivered.

The audio books page on a desktop: three gradient cards in a row, each with a cover, a title and a listen button.
Audio books
The author support page on a desktop: a short explanation beside a form for the author’s name, phone number, the work’s title, its type and a summary.
Author support form
The about page on a desktop: the union’s history since 1952 in Kurdish beside its logo in a gold ring.
About the union
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  1. 01

    Interface design

    A light lavender ground with purple and gold taken from the union’s logo, drawn for right-to-left Kurdish from the first screen.

  2. 02

    Nine pages

    Home, printed books, PDFs, audio books, a page for each audio book, gallery, author support, contact and about.

  3. 03

    Printed catalogue

    888 titles in a searchable table, with subject filters, a list of women authors and a request button on every row.

  4. 04

    PDF shelf

    84 PDFs on cover cards, with category filters, search and paging. Each one opens in the browser.

  5. 05

    Audio books

    Cover cards that play on YouTube, or chapter by chapter with a player and a download link for each part.

  6. 06

    Gallery

    Photos and videos of the centre’s events in a masonry grid, with a lightbox the arrow keys move through.

  7. 07

    Forms

    Book requests and author support requests reach the library by email, with spam guards and no mail app needed.

  8. 08

    Admin panel

    A content panel at /admin with every label in Kurdish. Sign in, fill one form, publish.

  9. 09

    Catalogue import

    886 books brought in from the library’s spreadsheets in two passes, with duplicates removed and women authors marked.

  10. 10

    Hosting and domain

    Cloudflare Pages for the site, Cloudflare R2 for covers, PDFs and audio, and the domain partukyak.org.