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The Egyptian government has banned female students from wearing the niqab, a face-covering veil, at schools, according to state-owned media. Education Minister Reda Hegazy’s statement, released on Monday and quoted by the government-owned Ahram newspaper, said students have an “optional” right to choose if they will cover their hair at …

Egyptians are up in arms against film streaming site Netflix over the depiction of Queen Cleopatra VII as a black African. The depiction is contained in a Netflix docudrama series African Queens. Only the trailer of the series has been released attracting the anger but producers are standing their grounds …