"They Are Stealing My Culture!" Bassem Youssef On Netflix's 'Cleopatra' Casting

Love hearing the American telling the Egyptian that he is wrong about his own culture 🙄

An American telling an Egyptian about Egyptian history, fascinating....

He is right. If it is a documentary it has to be historically accurate.

I'm Iranian, and I have never met an Egyptian I didn't like. My best friend is from Egypt, I love Egyptians

The guy on the right making faces because he has no argument while being schooled by the Egyptian guy is so infuriating. He knows he's losing the debate but he feels like his position is dogmatically morally correct so he keeps making childish faces because he cant handle losing.

The Egyptian: giving sound arguments and historically accurate information The American: making sassy stank faces when disagrees

I have to agree with the gentleman from Egypt on this one. Who are in America to claim this thing is a documentary. We don't even teach Egyptian history in school. Not even African history. When I say African history I mean history about Africa. Not American African history in America. America is in no rightful position to say this Cleopatra is a documentary. That is very ignorant. Plus I also love how the guy on the right completely dodges the question about how he would feel if a white actor was chosen to play Nelson Mandela. He knew if he truly answered that question truthfully, he would have lost all credibility on Cleopatra.

It's amazing how far some people are willing to go to try to deny Egyptians their own history...

I’m Greek and I agree with Bassem. Things are getting so out of control, it’s ridiculous. If the tables were turned, there would be uproar.

As a black West African, I must say I am tired of these people blackwashing every other culture. Why can't we tell our own stories?

Bassem is very ethical human, he has hunger strike against Boku Haram and killing of Christians, he went to Egypt and attacked government for building wall in Gaza, he was actively protesting every weekend against killing in Syria, he even started foundation for return of Jews in Arabs countries and stopping discrimination, giving Jews same rights like Arabs have in Israel. Very nice human being not Jews hater as people could think. He's also advocating loudly for the human rights in Iran. Wonderful human.

I blame poor education standards of liberal American institutions

As an American, I'd like to apologize for letting this stupidity get out of hand.

An American man telling an Egyptian historian about Egyptian history Gotta love it 😁

Bassem is always on point!

Cleopatra wasn't black or Arab. She was Greek. She spoke Greek, and she was from a long line of European Greeks. She was part of the Greek Ptolemaic dynasty.

As a Greek having watched a lot of Holywood movies on greek myths & history, I couldn't agree & relate more to Bassem Youssef. Egyptian history is marvelous and frankly nobody gives a damn about American guilt syndrome. History is history, truth is the truth and that's all that matters

The main issue is that they're calling this production a documentary and not a work of fiction.

Cleopatra came from the Ptolemy dynasty of pharaohs. Ptolemy, whom the dynasty was named after was a Macedonian Greek and was a general in the companion cavalry lead by Alexander the Great. So Cleopatra's heritage is a mixture of Greek and Egyptian, that's roughly how she would be described.

Bassem impresses me with his intellect every time I hear him speak. His knowledge of history is incredible. I want to see more of him on our screens 👏🏼