Afghan Girl is a 1984 photographic portrait of Sharbat Gula (born 20 March 1972), also known as Sharbat Bibi, taken by photojournalist Steve McCurry. It appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic. The image is of an adolescent girl with green eyes in a red headscarf looking intensely at the camera. The identity of the photo's subject was not initially known, but in early 2002, she was identified as Sharbat Gula. She was a Pashtun child living in the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in Pakistan during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan when she was photographed.
The photo has been likened to Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the Mona Lisa and been called "the First World's Third World Mona Lisa". The image became "emblematic" of "refugee girl/woman located in some distant camp" deserving of the Western viewer's compassion. It became a symbol of Afghanistan to the west
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