Egypt is seeing red over Netflix’s new serial ‘Queen Cleopatra’. The portrayal of the historic queen by a biracial actress has prompted the Egyptian government to issue a statement, saying she was ‘light skinned and not Black’; a lawyer has filed a lawsuit against the streaming giant and a local broadcaster said it would be running its own show based on her. But what race did Queen Cleopatra belong to?
Netflix's new Cleopatra doc raises questions about the life of the Egyptian queen. We unpack what the doc leaves out and why the last pharaoh was more than just her skin color.