Learn more about the Muslim community in Philadelphia, a city with a long Muslim history and numerous Muslim-owned businesses, an Islamic history museum, Muslim community organizations and charities, as well as Muslim political leaders. READ MORE (Washington Post) ...
Apple Reveals New Hijab Emoji!
In honor of World Emoji Day on July 17, Apple revealed a new set of forthcoming emojis, including a new hijab emoji. The idea for a hijab emoji came last year, when a 16-year-old Muslim girl named Rayouf Alhumedhi proposed the idea to The Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit corporation that reviews and develops new emojis. According to Alhumedhi, she and her friends were surprised that a hijab emoji did not already exist, saying: "The fact that there wasn't an emoji to represent me and the ...
“Muslims of America”
Photographer Carlos Khalil Guzman has undertaken an ambitions project: To document the diversity of the American Muslim community. For his new photo series, "Muslims of America," Guzman traveled across the country—to all 50 states—to interview and photograph an array of Muslims from all walks of life and a wide variety of ethnic and national backgrounds. According to Guzman, he started this project because he was frustrated by the lack of diversity of representation of Muslims in ...
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