阿富汗的蒙娜丽莎

这是美国《国家地理》杂志上最有名的人物照片之一，取名叫“阿富汗女孩”。这是美国记者史蒂芬-麦卡瑞1984年在阿富汗难民营里拍摄的；那时候，这个女孩大约12岁。当时麦卡瑞没有问这个女孩的名字。
 
此照片在《国家地理》封面上一出现，立刻全球扬名，大家都想知道她是谁。但是因为连年战火，外界人无法进入阿富汗，这个女孩的形象就变成了一个传说。
 
一个年仅12岁的女孩子，满面灰尘的脸上透露着成年人的沧桑，一对浅绿色的眼睛里充满了对这个世界与人生的恐惧。这张照片打动了亿万人的心，有人称她为阿富汗的蒙娜丽莎，它象征着阿富汗多年的苦难。
 

2002年，《国家地理》派专队人员和麦卡瑞重归阿富汗，寻找这个女孩。不少阿富汗男人跑出来，说这个女孩是自己的妻子（大概想借此赚点美元）。故事很曲折，最后麦卡瑞终于找到了这个女孩，此时变成已婚妇人。她一生只照过两次像，就是下面的两幅照片。
 

当麦卡瑞找到阿富汗女孩时，她头上戴着面罩，经过她丈夫的允许，才取下面罩，和麦卡瑞交谈。读了有关她的故事，令人唏嘘不已。
 

她的真实名字叫莎巴特·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".