Abigail Nussbaum: I see we are once again complaining about people of color being cast in a story about the Middle East in antiquity, while sparing barely a glance to the ranks of British and American white people who have been cast as Greeks, Turks, and Italians.

I see we are once again complaining about people of color being cast in a story about the Middle East in antiquity, while sparing barely a glance to the ranks of British and American white people who have been cast as Greeks, Turks, and Italians.