The Egyptian government has denounced Netflix’s upcoming docudrama series Queen Cleopatra, saying the streamer’s decision to portray the ancient queen as a black woman represents a “falsification of Egyptian history and a blatant historical fallacy.”
Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities issued a lengthy statement in a Facebook post Thursday in which it said Cleopatra had Hellenic, or Greek, features and was light-skinned, not black.
Bassem Youssef:
"My intervention with Pierce Morgan on the
topic of the film Cleopatra on Netflix. I took
the opportunity to talk about the deliberate
falsification of history by people like Kevin
Hart or the Afrocentrism movement, or
claims of people like Stephen Spielberg that
the Jews built the pyramids, and I talked
about how one like Gal Gado represents the
role of Cleopatra with the support of the
Israeli government, and that this is a much
bigger insult than a color. An actress skin.l
spoke about all this with all my respect to the
great African civilization in West Africa. In the
end, we are all brothers and from this
continent, but falsifying history is a big
problem.
This is the debate | had about the new Netflix
documentary about Cleopatra . I talked about
the systemic flacification kd history done by
the Afro centrist movement or by Kevin Hart
or by Stephen Spielberg. It seems that our
culture according to Hollywood is either built
by Jewish people or Africans from South of
the Sahara.I talked about these issues while
showing great respect to the wonderful
culture of west Africa . Something that All
Africans should be proud of ".
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