And I couldn't find a hijab emoji. So, I went around it by adding a turban emoji and, you know, the normal girl emoji, with an arrow in-between [👳🏽‍♀️ 🔀 👩🏽], to somehow create ...

At age 15, she campaigned to add an emoji depicting a woman wearing a hijab, the head covering donned by many Muslim women. “If there are four emojis to represent four different stages of a mailbox.

At age 15, she campaigned to add an emoji depicting a woman wearing a hijab, the head covering donned by many Muslim women. "If there are four emojis to represent four different stages of a mailbox.

“ As such, we helped a 15-year-old Saudi Arabian girl, Rayouf Alhumedhi, lead the charge for a hijab emoji, which arrived on devices worldwide in 2017. ” ...

KELLY: Yeah, the hijab emoji was the initiative of a 15-year-old Saudi teenager, Rayouf Alhumedhi. She told the BBC in 2016 why it was so important to her. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) ...

The hijab emoji, as it's informally known, was submitted in 2016 to the Unicode Consortium, a not-for-profit overseeing emoji standards with voting members from the world's top digital companies.

Emoji have become a ubiquitous form of communication. And like any form of language, they can have a social impact. The addition of a hijab emoji has provided some inclusivity to Muslim women ...

The documentary follows several emoji proposals—the hijab; mate, a caffeinated drink popular across South America; and a pair of underwear stained with menstrual blood—as they try to get past ...

It’s hard not to be impressed by hijab emoji creator Rayouf Alhumedhi, then 15 years old, as she practices the presentation she’ll give to the Consortium; or celebrate with the Argentinian duo ...

But unlike implementing, say, a woman wearing a hijab, creating an icon for the span of interracial relationships isn't just one new emoji. It could be thousands.

Last year, she submitted a proposal for a hijab emoji, in order to represent women who wear the Islamic headscarf. Her suggestion was accepted by the tech giant Apple, and finally unveiled last month.