Millions of Muslim women who wear the traditional headscarf are finally getting an emoji that represents them — and it’s all thanks to a teenage girl from Saudi Arabia.

Over the last year, emoji developers and public figures have argued that the universal emoji keyboard makes it difficult, if not impossible, for women to represent themselves beyond a bride or ...

Headscarf-wearing women now have an emoji of their own, thanks to a 16-year-old Saudi girl. Ad Feedback. World. Africa ... “But overall, I think the Muslim community will benefit from it.

Rayouf Alhumedhi, a 15-year-old Saudi national living in Germay, sent a proposal for the design of digital hijab icons to the non-profit emoji developer the Unicode Consortium, according to the BBC.

Alhumedhi, 16, followed all the instructions listed under “Submitting Emoji Proposals” page, to explain why she wanted a hijab emoji introduced. The teen's request caught the attention of ...

Hijab emoji: 16-year-old Saudi girl's suggestion gains representation for headscarf-wearing Muslim women. Rayouf Alhumedhi says she was 'baffled' the image wasn't already available ...

The Islamic State has a new weapon in spreading hate speech and violent content online: the emoji. Over the past two months, Facebook pages in Arabic, Kurdish and English have used these digital ...

The watermelon emoji appears next to the Palestinian flag in display names on TikTok and X, ... 30, the founder of the digital publication Muslim Girl.

Headscarf-wearing women now have an emoji of their own, thanks to a 16-year-old Saudi girl. Ad Feedback. World. Africa ... “But overall, I think the Muslim community will benefit from it.