{"id":402495,"date":"2017-07-18T13:30:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T13:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/07\/18\/hijab-wearing-woman-among-apples-new-emojis\/"},"modified":"2017-07-18T13:30:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T13:30:32","slug":"hijab-wearing-woman-among-apples-new-emojis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/07\/18\/hijab-wearing-woman-among-apples-new-emojis\/","title":{"rendered":"Hijab-wearing woman among Apple\u2019s new emojis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>US tech giant Apple has previewed forthcoming emojis, including one that depicts a woman wearing a hijab.<\/p>\n<p>More than 12 animated symbols were unveiled on Monday to celebrate World Emoji Day and will be released on Apple devices later this year, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new emoji make it easier for users to express themselves with greater diversity, additional animals and creatures, new smiley faces and more,\u201d Apple said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The headscarf-wearing character was approved by Unicode, a non-profit international consortium, in November last year after a Saudi teen living in Germany campaigned for its inclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen-year-old Rayouf Alhumedhi submitted a proposal to Unicode in September 2016, pointing out that there was no image that represented her.<\/p>\n<p>Her online campaign, the Hijab Emoji Project, noted that some Christian and Jewish women also wear headscarves, along with hundreds of millions of Muslims. 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More than 12 animated symbols were unveiled on Monday to celebrate World Emoji Day and will be released on Apple devices later this year, the company said. \u201cThe new emoji make it easier for users to express themselves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":402496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hijab-wearing woman among Apple\u2019s new emojis - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/07\/18\/hijab-wearing-woman-among-apples-new-emojis\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Hijab-wearing woman among Apple\u2019s new emojis - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"US tech giant Apple has previewed forthcoming emojis, including one that depicts a woman wearing a hijab. 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