阿富汗的蒙娜麗莎

這是美國《國家地理》雜誌上最有名的人物照片之一，取名叫“阿富汗女孩”。這是美國記者史蒂芬-麥卡瑞1984年在阿富汗難民營裏拍攝的；那時候，這個女孩大約12歲。當時麥卡瑞沒有問這個女孩的名字。
 
此照片在《國家地理》封麵上一出現，立刻全球揚名，大家都想知道她是誰。但是因為連年戰火，外界人無法進入阿富汗，這個女孩的形象就變成了一個傳說。
 
一個年僅12歲的女孩子，滿麵灰塵的臉上透露著成年人的滄桑，一對淺綠色的眼睛裏充滿了對這個世界與人生的恐懼。這張照片打動了億萬人的心，有人稱她為阿富汗的蒙娜麗莎，它象征著阿富汗多年的苦難。
 

2002年，《國家地理》派專隊人員和麥卡瑞重歸阿富汗，尋找這個女孩。不少阿富汗男人跑出來，說這個女孩是自己的妻子（大概想借此賺點美元）。故事很曲折，最後麥卡瑞終於找到了這個女孩，此時變成已婚婦人。她一生隻照過兩次像，就是下麵的兩幅照片。
 

當麥卡瑞找到阿富汗女孩時，她頭上戴著麵罩，經過她丈夫的允許，才取下麵罩，和麥卡瑞交談。讀了有關她的故事，令人唏噓不已。
 

她的真實名字叫莎巴特·古拉，（Sharbat Gula）。

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Pashtun by ethnicity, Gula's parents were killed during the Soviet Union's bombing of Afghanistan when she was around six years old. Along with her grandmother, brother, and three other sisters, she walked across the mountains to Pakistan and ended up in the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in Pakistan in 1984.

She married her husband, Rahmat Gul, between the age of 13-16, and returned to her village in Afghanistan in the mid 1990s. Gula has three daughters. A fourth daughter died in infancy. She expressed hopes that her children will be able to get an education. A devout muslim, Gula normally would wear a burka and was hesitant to meet with a McCurry as a male from outside the family. When asked if she had ever felt safe, she responded "No. But life under the Taliban was better. At least there was peace and order." Until the National Geographic team found her again, she had never seen the photo of herself as a child. When asked how she had survived, she responded that it was "the will of God".