Rayouf Alhumedhi is a 15-year-old student in Berlin, Germany. She’s been wearing a hijab—the traditional headscarf worn by Muslim women—since age 13. But when Saudi Arabia-born Alhumedhi and ...

A new proposal submitted to the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee argues for the inclusion of hijab and headscarf emojis. Credit: images by Aphelandra Messer Over the last year, emoji developers and ...