The Italian government announced on Thursday that Sharbat Gula, who in 1985 gained worldwide fame as the green-eyed 'Afghan Girl' image by photojournalist Steve McCurry, is in Rome being evacuated ...
At their family restaurant, there is a poster of the National Geographic cover with the cliché photograph of the green-eyed Afghan refugee girl, “the one who haunts every Google search for ...
This story appears in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Twenty-five years ago an Afghan girl with green eyes haunted the cover of National Geographic. She became the iconic ...