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Sharbat Gula. Owner. Steve McCurry. 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.
Dec 12, 2017 · Sharbat Gula, known to much of the world simply as the "Afghan girl," received the keys to the home late last month in a ceremony led by Afghan government officials. It comes after three decades ...
Mar 23, 2015 · The striking portrait of 12-year-old Sharbat Gula, a Pashtun orphan in the Nasir Bagh refugee camp on the Afghan-Pakistan border, was taken in December 1984 and published the following year.
Sharbat Gula ( Pashto: شربت ګله; born c. 1972) is an Afghan woman who became internationally recognized as the 12-year-old subject in Afghan Girl, a 1984 portrait taken by American photojournalist Steve McCurry that was later published as the cover photograph for the June 1985 issue of National Geographic. The portrait was shot at Nasir ...
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 to ...
Jul 26, 2015 · Sharbat Gula was around 12 years old when photographer Steve McCurry took her picture. "It was this piercing gaze," McCurry says. "A very beautiful little girl with this incredible look." Courtesy ...
Nov 25, 2021 · National Geographic's famed green-eyed "Afghan Girl" Sharbat Gula poses for a photo in 2016. The office of Premier Mario Draghi said the Italian government will now help to welcome her and get her ...
