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Dec 12, 2017 · "While [Sharbat Gula] was granted a warm welcome upon her arrival back in Afghanistan, thousands of other Afghan women are being forcibly returned without any family, home, job, or possibility for ...
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 ...
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.
Jan 16, 2017 · Sharbat Gula was a child living with her family in Kot district of eastern Nangarhar province when Soviet forces invaded Afghanistan in 1979. "There was war between Russians and Afghanistan - that ...
Nov 26, 2021 · By Jenny Gross. Published Nov. 26, 2021 Updated Nov. 27, 2021. Sharbat Gula, who became an international symbol of war-torn Afghanistan after her portrait at a refugee camp was published on the ...
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.
Mar 31, 2002 · It is possibly too late for her 13-year-old daughter as well, Sharbat Gula said. The two younger daughters still have a chance. The reunion between the woman with green eyes and the photographer ...
