Cleopatra Pop…

Since my class in Beirut on ancient Egypt and Nubia is partially devoted to deconstructing samples of Egyptomania, Katy Perry’s new “Cleopatra” video will be giving us plenty of material to critique all week. For starters, the hieroglyphs make no sense–a common but avoidable problem in video and cinematic representations of ancient Egypt. Then again, only those of us who read hieroglyphs tend to notice…