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Dec 12, 2017 · Sharbat Gula’s piercing green eyes made her an instant icon. Orphaned at age six during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, she had trekked by foot to Pakistan with her siblings and...
Nov 25, 2021 · Gula gained international fame in 1984 as an Afghan refugee girl, after war photographer Steve McCurry's photograph of her, with piercing green eyes, was published on the cover of National...
Afghan Girl is a 1984 photographic portrait of Sharbat Gula, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan during the Soviet–Afghan War. The photograph, taken by American photojournalist Steve McCurry near the Pakistani city of Peshawar, appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic.
Nov 26, 2021 · Sharbat Gulla, the "Afghan Girl" whose photo by Steve McCurry graced National Geographic in 1985, arrived in Italy as part of a West's evacuation of Afghans. She had been in hiding in Pakistan and faced deportation for using a fake identity card.
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Mar 31, 2002 · Her eyes are sea green. They are haunted and haunting, and in them you can read the tragedy of a land drained by war. She became known around National Geographic as the “Afghan girl,” and for...
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Nov 26, 2021 · Sharbat Gula, who became an international symbol of war-torn Afghanistan after her portrait at a refugee camp was published on the cover of National Geographic magazine in 1985, was evacuated...
Nov 27, 2021 · An Afghan woman who achieved international recognition after a striking photograph of her was featured on the cover of National Geographic is starting a new life in Italy. Sharbat Gulla was 12 ...
