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Does it matter what colour an actress playing Cleopatra happens to be? Some members of the audience might not care. To others, it raises crucial questions of au

The country has accused the streaming giant of misrepresenting history by casting a mixed-race woman to play the titular character in their upcoming show Queen Cleopatra.

Netflix is preparing to release an all-new docudrama titled “Queen Cleopatra” about the titular historical figure. However, one Egyptian lawyer has sued the streaming service for their decision to cast a black woman as Cleopatra.

Egypts antiquities ministry insisted on Thursday that Cleopatra had "white skin and Hellenistic characteristics" in an ongoing row over a Netflix drama-documentary depicting the famed beauty of antiquity as black.

The Egyptian antiquities ministry said to Netflix on Thursday that Cleopatra was 'light-skinned' ahead of the release of a new drama-documentary featuring the queen as black.

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The decision to cast Adele James as the Egyptian queen has caused heated debate on social media, an online petition and even a legal complaint

“Most of what Netflix platform displays do not conform to Islamic and societal values and principles, especially Egyptian ones.”

LONDON: Egyptian comedian and media critic Bassem Youssef has accused US comedian-turned-actor Kevin Hart and the Afrocentric movement of “continuous cultural appropriation and falsification of history.” Appearing on TalkTV’s Piers Morgan Uncensored on Monday to speak about the new Netflix docudrama “Queen Cleopatra,” Youssef was responding to an alleged claim made by

It has been more than two millennia since she died, and yet Cleopatra remains a raging topic of discussion. The age-old question of Cleopatra's ethnicity looms large. Some say she was white Caucasian, others argue she was Black African, and so on. It's a debate that has been going on for centuries, and one that seems to have no end in sight. The topic comes up once every few years, usually because of casting news regarding her in a TV show or a movie.