Cleopatra VII

Queen Cleopatra (VII Philopator) is one of the most recognizable names in history, but her daughter, who managed to survive the chaos that befell Ptolemaic Egypt, is much less well known. Cleopatra VII had four children. With Julius Caesar, she...

The new Netflix docudrama series Queen Cleopatra, which debuted on May 10, has received record low audience and critic scores on review websites like Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB. The series, produced by Jada Pinkett Smith and starring Adele James, has...

A television channel in Egypt has announced that it will produce its own Cleopatra documentary amid the current controversy surrounding the docudrama produced by Netflix, Queen Cleopatra. The new Egyptian channel, Al-Watha’eqeya, made the announcement in late April and expressed...

Given the recent controversy surrounding the depiction of  Cleopatra VII Philopator as a black African woman in the upcoming Netflix documentary series Queen Cleopatra, the spotlight has again fallen on the physical appearance of this enigmatic and beguiling figure...

On Thursday, the Egyptian Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Archeology weighed in on the ongoing controversy surrounding the Netflix documentary "Queen Cleopatra". Dr. Mustafa Waziri, the Secretary General, was highly critical of the decision to portray Cleopatra VII...

Tina Gharavi, the director of the highly controversial upcoming Netflix docudrama series Queen Cleopatra, has responded to criticism that the casting choices made in the series were deliberate acts of historical revisionism. The backlash against the series was prompted by...

A petition calling for the cancellation of the Netflix documentary Queen Cleopatra has garnered over 62,000 signatures in just two days. The Netflix documentary, produced and narrated by Jada Pinket Smith, has been widely lambasted for its depiction of Cleopatra...