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Netflix's new docudrama starring Adele James as a Cleopatra with African heritage is sparking a racial uproar in Egypt.

(WTVO) — An Egyptian lawyer has filed a lawsuit calling for Netflix to be banned in the country for a distortion of history by casting a Black actress as Cleopatra. Mahmoud al-Semary filed the lawsuit Sunday claiming an upcoming Netflix docuseries distorts Egypt’s history in favor of Afrocentrism, according to The Jerusalem Post. Al-Semary added […]

The Egyptian lawsuit states that “most of what Netflix platform displays do not conform to Islamic and societal values."

Queen Cleopatra, the new documentary series by Netflix, has become one of the most disliked trailers in the history of the streaming service

Netflix is being called out by Egyptian authorities for allegedly "blackwashing" Queen Cleopatra in Jada Pinkett Smith's new docuseries.

The “docudrama” Queen Cleopatra, which purports to be a historically accurate account of the life and reign of the ruler of the Ptolemaic kingdom of Egypt in the first century BC, will be released on Netflix on May 10. The series, produced by Jada Pinkett Smith, the wife of American actor Will Smith, has already attracted much controversy for the decision to cast the black

Netflix's docu-drama 'Queen Cleopatra', in which Adele James, who is of mixed heritage, plays the first-century Egyptian ruler as a queen with African roots, is sparking an uproar in Egypt,

Netflix Forced To Turn Off Comments Because 'Cleopatra' Actress Is Portrayed As Black

Multiple petitions against Netflix's upcoming "African Queens: Queen Cleopatra" have cited the docuseries "blackwashing" of the Greek ruler.

A lawyer in Egypt accused the streaming service of "erasing" his countrys history by casing a Black actress to portray the famous queen.