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Nov 26, 2021 · ‘Afghan Girl’ From 1985 National Geographic Cover Takes Refuge in Italy - The New York Times. Sharbat Gula, whose haunting portrait was featured by the magazine more than three decades ago, was...
Sep 20, 2021 · Mon 20 Sep 2021 06.30 EDT. O n 1 September, a young Afghan girl stood in line with her family at a US base in Sicily waiting to board a flight to Philadelphia. She is about nine years old and...
Sep 11, 2023 · Last updated: September 11, 2023. 3 minutes of reading. Photography. Steve Mccurry – Afghan Girl, Pakistan, 1984. Sharbat Gula, the face of the Afghanistan tragedy. First appearance in 1985. The story behind the photo. Video: Finding the Afghan Girl. The Afghan girl revisited: How Sharbat Gula was found many years later.
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.
Nov 25, 2021 · ROME — National Geographic magazine's famed green-eyed "Afghan Girl" has arrived in Italy as part of the West's evacuation of Afghans following the Taliban takeover of the country, the...
Mar 31, 2002 · • 11 min read. This story appeared in the April 2002 issue of National Geographic magazine. She remembers the moment. The photographer took her picture. She remembers her anger. The man was a...
Nov 27, 2021 · The haunting expression, a mixture of pain and resilience, of a child thought to be around 12, was dubbed the “Afghan Girl.” She became a symbol of war, displacement and defiance after American...
