Egyptian lawyer Mahmoud al-Semary filed a case with the Public Prosecutor to shut down the Netflix platform in Egypt, following the trailer release of “Queen Cleopatra,” a new documentary depicting the historical figure as a black woman. The Egyptian lawyer has demanded that serious legal action must be taken against those responsible for the documentary, and blamed the Netflix management team for its participation in “this crime”. The complaint submitted against Netflix stated, “Most of what Netflix platform displays do not conform to Islamic and societal values and principles, especially Egyptian ones.”It added that the movie trailer, which attracted millions of viewers across the globe, contradicts Egyptian history. The case said that the documentary promotes Afrocentrism which aims at distorting and obliterating Egyptian identity. Former Egyptian Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass described depicting Queen Cleopatra as a black woman as “falsifying facts”, adding that “This is completely fake.
