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Is Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra cultural appreciation or cultural appropriation?
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. On May 10, Netflix dropped its four-part docuseries, Queen Cleopatra. Executive produced by actress Jada Pinkett-Smith as part of her African Queens series, Queen Cleopatra focuses on Cleopatra VII, the last pharaoh of Egypt, through testimonies and dramatic…