Citizens Afghanistan Sharbat Gula, also known as the “Afghan girl” or “Afghan Mona Lisa”, evacuated to Italy. This was reported by the press service of the Italian government.
“Following the appeals from representatives of civil society and a number of non-governmental organizations on the help of the Gule to leave the country after the August events, the Council of Ministers of Italy took over the organization of its transportation in Rome under the program on the evacuation of Afghan citizens and the government plan for their reception and integration “,” says a press release of the Italian government, which quotes FerganaNews.
Now Sharbat Gule is almost 50 years old. When a photojournalist Steve McCarry made her photograph in 1984 in the refugee camp at the Afghan-Pakistani border, she was orphaned after a teenager’s village at her village. Portrait of a girl with shrill green eyes was published in the National Geographic magazine a year later and immediately became a symbol of the suffering of the whole people, and then the symbol of the problem of refugees in general. The image of the picture began to call the “Afghan girl” or “Afghan Mona Lisa”.
In 2012, when a famous magazine first put photos and paintings from his archives for the auction, a picture “Afghan girl” at the auction house of Christie’s auction house in New York left the hammer for $ 178.9 thousand, which exceeded the estimated value in almost four times.
Scharbat itself, returning to Afghanistan, married and gave birth to four daughters (one of whom died), did not suspect that he received worldwide fame. McCarry, who did not record her name, decided to find his hero after 17 years. In 2002, he photographed it again. And the first, and then the second photo was exhibited at exhibitions in different cities of the world.
In 2014-2016, Sharbat lived in Pakistan. From there she was expelled after the Pakistani court recognized her guilty of illegal living in the country. In Kabul, the famous refugee was accepted by the main authorities, promising to provide the hum of housing.