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Times Magazine Has Listed The Saudi Girl Who Created the Hijab Emoji Amongst The Most Influential Teenagers Of 2017
Earlier last year, Rayouf Alhumedhi, a young Saudi student in Berlin, Germany, was trying to start a group chat on WhatsApp with her friends when she realized something important was missing.
Her friends decided to title the group chat by using an emoji that represented each of their faces.
For Alhumedhi, who wears a hijab headscarf, this wasn’t so easy
Though emoji has options for turbans, detective fedoras, and police officer caps there’s no option for the traditional headscarf worn by around 550 million Muslim women in the world
So Alhumedhi took matters into her own hands.
She proposed the new emoji sign for Unicode 10 and it was eventually successfully approved.
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I can’t believe it!!! https://t.co/7FSI8iuBTq
— Rayouf Alhumedhi (@rayoufalh) November 2, 2017
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