


Cleopatra by Saara El-Arifi (26/02/26)
PUBLISHED 26TH FEBRUARY 2026.
A magical, groundbreaking reimagining of an iconic queen.
YOU KNOW MY NAME. BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW ME.
Your historians call me seductress, but I was ever in love's thrall.
Your playwrights speak of witchcraft, but my talents came from the gods themselves.
Your poets sing of my bloodlust, but I was always protecting my children.
How wilfully they refuse to concede that a woman could be powerful, strategic, divinely blessed to rule.
Death will silence me no longer. This is not the story of how I died. But how I lived.
PUBLISHED 26TH FEBRUARY 2026.
A magical, groundbreaking reimagining of an iconic queen.
YOU KNOW MY NAME. BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW ME.
Your historians call me seductress, but I was ever in love's thrall.
Your playwrights speak of witchcraft, but my talents came from the gods themselves.
Your poets sing of my bloodlust, but I was always protecting my children.
How wilfully they refuse to concede that a woman could be powerful, strategic, divinely blessed to rule.
Death will silence me no longer. This is not the story of how I died. But how I lived.