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Islam Issa

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Islam Issa is the award-winning author of Alexandria: The City that Changed the World and Professor of Literature and History at Birmingham City Unive...rsity.

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Cleopatra was Egyptian — whether Black or brown matters less

The controversy over the pharaoh’s skin colour in Netflix’s docudrama takes away from her powerful legacy.

Opinion by Islam IssaIslam Issa

Published On 1 May 20231 May 2023

The head of a statue depicting Cleopatra (69bc- 30bc), the last active pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, is displayed as part of the exhibition entitled "the myth of Cleopatra" on April 9, 2014 at the Pinacotheque in Paris. AFP PHOTO / ERIC FEFERBERG (Photo by ERIC FEFERBERG / AFP)

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