This story appears in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Twenty-five years ago an Afghan girl with green eyes haunted the cover of National Geographic. She became the iconic ...

Aria Aber’s splendid “Good Girl” introduces just such a voice, chronicling a young Afghan German woman ... tattooed eyebrows over gray-green eyes, hair always bleached blond.

The Italian government announced on Thursday that Sharbat Gula, who in 1985 gained worldwide fame as the green-eyed 'Afghan Girl' image by photojournalist Steve McCurry, is in Rome being evacuated ...