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Netflix’s ‘Queen Cleopatra’ star breaks her silence: “The death threats I’ve received, the racist comments… it’s vitriol.”
Culture
May 19, 2023
Netflix’s ‘Queen Cleopatra’ star breaks her silence: “The death threats I’ve received, the racist comments… it’s vitriol.”
Controversy continues to rage on since Netflix announced its documentary “Queen Cleopatra”, which portrayed the titular queen as black. Lead…
Filming for second season of ‘AlRawabi School for Girls’ wraps up
Art news
May 19, 2023
Filming for second season of ‘AlRawabi School for Girls’ wraps up
Filming has wrapped up for the second season of one of the top Arab dramas right now, “AlRawabi School for…
Video: Netflix reveals posters, release date for ‘Extraction 2’
Cinema/TV
May 17, 2023
Video: Netflix reveals posters, release date for ‘Extraction 2’
Hollywood Star Chris Hemsworth returns as Tyler Rake in the sequel to the popular Netflix action thriller “Extraction”, which will…
Netflix’s ‘Queen Cleopatra’ gets lowest audience score of any show in TV history: Forbes
Cinema/TV
May 16, 2023
Netflix’s ‘Queen Cleopatra’ gets lowest audience score of any show in TV history: Forbes
Netflix’s “Queen Cleopatra” documentary has received the worst audience rating ever in TV show history on Rotten Tomatoes, according to…
Baseera conducts survey of Egyptian opinions on Netflix’s ‘Queen Cleopatra’
Cinema/TV
May 15, 2023
Baseera conducts survey of Egyptian opinions on Netflix’s ‘Queen Cleopatra’
The Baseera Egyptian Center For Public Opinion Research conducted a survey of Egyptians opinions of Netflix’s controversial ‘Queen Cleopatra‘ documentary,…
Lawyer demands Egypt suspend Netflix’s ‘Cleopatra’ documentary
Egypt
May 8, 2023
Lawyer demands Egypt suspend Netflix’s ‘Cleopatra’ documentary
Lawyer Amr Abdel Salam filed an urgent lawsuit on Wednesday with the Administrative Court wherein he demanded that Egyptian authorities…
Egypt to produce its own documentary on Queen Cleopatra
Cinema/TV
May 7, 2023
Egypt to produce its own documentary on Queen Cleopatra
The Egyptian documentary channel “al-Wathaeqya”, of the Documentary Production Sector at the United Media Services Company, announced it has begun…
Zahi Hawass calls on Egypt to make its own English-language movie to combat Netflix’s ‘Queen Cleopatra’
Culture
May 2, 2023
Zahi Hawass calls on Egypt to make its own English-language movie to combat Netflix’s ‘Queen Cleopatra’
Egyptologist and former Minister of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, called on the Egyptian United Media Services company to produce its own…
Video: ‘They are stealing my culture!’ – Bassem Youssef slams Netflix’s ‘Cleopatra’
Culture
April 26, 2023
Video: ‘They are stealing my culture!’ – Bassem Youssef slams Netflix’s ‘Cleopatra’
Egyptian satirist and journalist Bassem Youssef slammed Netflix’s “Queen Cleopatra”, calling it a falsification of history after it released the…
Egyptian lawyer sues Netflix over Queen Cleopatra
Cinema/TV
April 18, 2023
Egyptian lawyer sues Netflix over Queen Cleopatra
Egyptian lawyer Mahmoud al-Semary has filed a case with the Public Prosecutor to shut down the Netflix platform in Egypt,…