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The 2023 Netflix documentary series Queen Cleopatra, which appears to depict Cleopatra as black, spurred a lawsuit in Egypt claiming that the documentary was distorting the reality in order to promote Afrocentrism, and that Netflix's programs were not in line with Egyptian or Islamic values. [160]
Netflix just launched its 'Queen Cleopatra' docudrama series, which depicts the Egyptian queen as Black. ... to file a lawsuit against an entire streaming service, that to me is really extreme ...
A bust of Cleopatra VII dated to 40–30 BC, now located at the Vatican Museums, showing her with a "melon" hairstyle and a Hellenistic royal diadem [1]. The ethnicity of Cleopatra VII, the last active Hellenistic ruler of the Macedonian-led Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, has caused debate in some circles.
CAIRO — Egypt has accused Netflix of misrepresenting history by casting a Black woman to play Cleopatra, its most famous historical figure, in a new series. “Queen Cleopatra,” which is ...
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A government-owned Egyptian broadcaster has responded to controversy over the casting of a Black actress to play Cleopatra in the Netflix docudrama series “African Queens,” which streams from ...
Dr. Zahi Hawass, a top Egyptologist and the country's former minister of state for antiquities affairs, told the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper that the idea that Cleopatra was Black is "completely fake."
A government-owned Egyptian broadcaster has responded the casting of a Black actress to play Cleopatra in the Netflix docudrama series “African Queens,” which streams from May 10, by ...