QUEEN CLEOPATRA IS NOT A BLACK WOMAN,EGYPTIAN GOVT FROWNS AT NETFLIX NEW DOCUMENTARY SERIES OF THE LATE QUEEN. (VIDEOS/PHOTOS).

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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