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African Queens: Queen Cleopatra

Cleopatra’s heritage has been the subject of academic debate, often ignored by Hollywood. This series re-assesses this part of her story.

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The second instalment of historical series African Queens is a 4 part look at Queen Cleopatra.

This includes both re-enactments and expert views.

From Executive Producer Jada Pinkett Smith comes a documentary series exploring the lives of prominent and iconic African Queens.

This season will feature Queen Cleopatra, the world’s most famous, powerful, and misunderstood woman — a daring queen whose beauty and romances came to overshadow her real asset: her intellect. Cleopatra’s heritage has been the subject of much academic debate, which has often been ignored by Hollywood. Now our series re-assesses this fascinating part of her story.

Wednesday May 10 on Netflix.

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  1. There was a huge controversy regarding this trailer – that Cleopatra would have been more Middle Eastern/Persian and not black.

    “Scholars generally identify Cleopatra as essentially of Macedonian Greek ancestry with some Persian and Sogdian Iranian ancestry.”

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    It’s why the comments are turned off under that YouTube clip.

    1. Looking at a comment made by this Netflix shows director, the question should be, why did Netflix hire her?. Tina Garavi said, ”Her (Cleopatra’s) proximity to whiteness seems to give her value, and for some Egyptians. it seems to really matter”. Lawyer Mahmoud al-Semary submitted a case via the public prosecutor last week to attempt to shut down Netflix in Egypt, the lawyer claimed the docudrama violates media laws and ”aims to erase the Egyptian identity”. It’s all fascinating stuff though hopefully Egypt will still watch Netflix, however the debate is exposing the subversion that some in the entertainment industry and media are proactively indulging in, politically agitating for radical social revisionism. Contemporary diversity and inclusion themes is one thing, but past history with all its obvious flaws is part of all human culture, which should be available for all generations to learn from.

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