“She Became a Global Symbol—But the Truth Behind the ‘Afghan Girl’ Will Break Your Heart”
Two Faces of Fame: Sharbat Gula’s Silent Burden and Elon Musk’s Loud Spectacle When the world first saw her—the girl with the haunted green eyes staring out from the cover of National Geographic—she became a symbol overnight. Not of herself, but of struggle, of suffering, of a war-torn place most could hardly pronounce. When the …