Person with Headscarf emoji

[4] Rayouf Alhumedhi submitted the proposal for the Person with Headscarf emoji as a 15 year old Saudi Arabian teenager living in Berlin[4] who wears a hijab and identifies as Muslim.

[4] This experience motivated her to write a proposal, first to Apple’s customer service department[6] and then to the Unicode Consortium, as a part of her "Hijab Emoji Project.

[4]In her proposal, Alhumedhi referenced roughly 550 million Muslim women who wear the hijab and expressed a need for greater representation by writing, "With this enormous number of people, not a single space on the keyboard is reserved for them.

"[5] The proposal also emphasized the importance of the hijab as "an integral aspect of women's lives" and the popularity of headscarves that extends beyond the Muslim community.

[10]  A factor that contributed to its approval was the potential for high frequency usage, as it is a compound emoji that could be combined with human heads and traditional religious apparel, specifically the hijab.