Headscarf-wearing women now have an emoji of their own, thanks to a 16-year-old Saudi girl. Rayouf Alhumedhi, who now lives in Vienna, proposed the idea last year to The Unicode Consortium, the ...

The hijab emoji was proposed by 15-year-old Rayouf Alhumedhi, who said the idea was inspired by a WhatsApp group chat with her friends. The girls had wanted the title of the group to be a series of ...

A vital new campaign is calling for tech giants to introduce a wider variety of emoji to represent women who wear hijabs. At present, cats have no fewer than nine emoji showing different facial ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, the Unicode Consortium had its 149th meeting to approve 51 new emoji as part of Unicode 10.0 — which will be available for mobile devices, laptops, desktops and wearables. The ...

When Rayouf Alhumedhi’s friends wanted to identify themselves to one another in a WhatsApp group chat, they didn’t rely on their names. Instead, each friend used an emoji. “My friends, who don’t wear ...

When Rayouf Alhumedhi’s friends wanted to identify themselves to one another in a WhatsApp group chat, they didn’t rely on their names. Instead, each friend used an emoji. “My friends, who don’t wear ...

Emojis help people show emotion in digital spaces — but the little, pixelated characters don't always represent the diversity of their users. And changing that isn't easy, as Rayouf Alhumedhi knows ...

Right now, the only place Rayouf Alhumedhi could depict herself with a hijab emoji would be through the Snapchat-owned personalized emoji app Bitmoji. So the high school student decided to draft an ...

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Headscarf-wearing women now have an emoji of their own, thanks to a 16-year-old Saudi girl. Rayouf Alhumedhi, who now lives in Vienna, proposed the idea last year to The Unicode Consortium, the ...