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Nov 25, 2021 · Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed "Afghan Girl" whose 1985 photo in National Geographic became a symbol of her country's wars, arrives to meet with Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani in Kabul ...
Nov 25, 2021 · Sharbat Gula, famously known as the green-eyed “Afghan Girl” from National Geographic's 1985 magazine cover, has been given refuge in Italy after the Taliban took over Afghanistan.
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Nov 25, 2021 · Italy has given safe haven to Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed "Afghan Girl" whose 1985 photo in National Geographic magazine became a symbol of her country's wars. Key points:
The photo, which shows a girl with a striking green eye colour, looking straight into the lens with a piercing stare, became a symbol of the Afghan conflict and the problems affecting refugees around the world. The image is the only one to have been used three times on a National Geographic cover. (The first was June 1985.
Nov 25, 2021 · Gulla 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 ...
Jan 29, 2017 · An Afghan woman made famous by a 1985 National Geographic cover talks exclusively to the BBC of her hopes for a new beginning. Sharbat Gula spoke to BBC Afgh...
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Oct 26, 2016 · PAKISTAN-- The haunting photo of a green-eyed, Afghan girl named Sharbat Gula, taken in a refugee camp in Pakistan in 1984, was one of National Geographic magazine’s most famous covers. And on ...
