Nefertiti with a gas mask, spray-painted on a wall in Cairo during the Arab Spring.
The same as a supermodel in an advertisement for women's underwear.
And again: Rihanna adorned with her jewels and making the cover of an issue of
Vogue Arabia
…
Not far from other posters.
With the cat Ramses touting croquettes.
Or Ramses himself happily declaring that he was
“raised in Banania”.
In the years 1960-1970, the name of this sovereign was also used for a car model, for pencils, for condoms (a copy, presented in a window, attests to this).
As for that of Cleopatra, it was used for cigarettes, bottles of milk, even for the brand of a whiskey distilled in… Nepal!
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