Episode 1222
Afghan Girl
Sun, 2020-Sep-06 02:01 UTC
Length - 1:53
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With 440,995 views on Saturday, 5 September 2020 our article of the day is Afghan Girl.
Afghan Girl is a 1984 photographic portrait of Sharbat Gula (Pashto: شربت ګله) (pronounced [ˈʃaɾbat]) (born c. 1974), 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 who was living in the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in Pakistan during the time of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan when she was photographed.
It has been likened to Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the Mona Lisa and has 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 compassion of the Western viewer. It had also become a symbol of Afghanistan to the west.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 02:01 UTC on Sunday, 6 September 2020.
For the full current version of the article, see Afghan Girl on Wikipedia.
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