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The photograph, entitled Afghan Girl, appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic. The image of her face, with a red scarf draped loosely over her head and her eyes staring directly into the camera, was named "the most recognized photograph" in the magazine's history, and the cover is one of National Geographic's best known. [12]
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.
This is a timeline of Afghan history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Afghanistan and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Afghanistan. See also the list of heads of state of Afghanistan and the list of years in Afghanistan
Bread & Roses was directed by award-winning Afghan filmmaker Sahra Mani, who left Kabul just weeks before it fell to the Taliban, and produced by Jennifer Lawrence and Nobel Peace Prize laureate ...
Notable examples of the charbagh include the former Bulkawara Palace in Samarra, Iraq, [5] and Madinat al-Zahra near Córdoba, Spain. [6] Babur Garden (1528), Kabul, Afghanistan, depicts a stepped garden. An interpretation of the charbagh design is conveyed as a metaphor for a "whirling wheel of time" that challenges time and change. [7]
March 23, 2022 — On the day high schools are opening, the Taliban suddenly reverse a promise to allow girls above the sixth grade to attend schools. Two-year timeline of events in Afghanistan ...
Charbagh at Humayun's Tomb, Delhi, India. Several of the first Mughal charbagh gardens of monumental scale belonged to imperial mausoleums, such as the Bagh-e Babur at Babur's Tomb, in Kabul, Afghanistan (honoring the first Mughal emperor, Babur); [5] the charbagh at Humayun's Tomb in Delhi, India (honoring Humayun, son of Babur); and the charbagh at the Tomb of Jahangir (honoring the fourth ...