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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]
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.
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 ...
Netflix's 'Queen Cleopatra' director defended the series in a Friday essay following allegations of 'blackwashing' and falsifying ancient Egyptian history.
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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 ...