Muhsin Mahdi
Muḥsin Mahd ī( June 21, 1926 – July 9, 2007) was an Iraqi- American islamologist and arabist.
He was a leading authority on Arabian history, philology, and philosophy.
His best- known work was the first critical edition of the" One Thousand and One Nights".
Billy Milano
Billy Milano is a Bronx- born heavy metal musician now based in Austin, Texas.
He is the singer and- occasionally- guitarist and bassist of crossover thrash band M.O.D., and he was also the singer of its predecessor, Stormtroopers of Death.
He was also the singer of United Forces, which also featured his Stormtroopers of Death bandmate Dan Lilker.
Nikolai Ushin
Nikolai Alexeyevich Ushin( 1898 – 6 April 1942) was a Soviet graphic artist, theatre designer and book illustrator.
Born in Saint Petersburg, Ushin studied in the Academy of Fine Arts in 1923 – 1928.
In the 1920s Ushin began designing theatrical decorations for scenic performances.
He creatively adapted the themes of medieval Russian painting and Palekh miniature.
Ushin in particular illustrated the Russian translation of" One Thousand and One Nights" published in eight volumes by Academia.
His illustrations for" One Thousand and One Nights" were awarded a gold medal at the 1937 Paris Exposition.
Ushin also made lithographs and bookplates.
He died in besieged Leningrad in 1942( as his brother, graphic artist and book illustrator Aleksey Ushin).
Ushin's works are kept in several Saint Petersburg museums.
His nephew, Andrey Ushin also became a graphic artist.
Bernie Bonvoisin
Bernard Bonvoisin, known as Bernie Bonvoisin( born 9 July 1956 in Nanterre, Hauts- de- Seine), is a French hard rock singer and film director.
He is best known for having been the singer of Trust.
He was one of the best friends of Bon Scott the singer of AC/ DC and together they recorded the song" Ride On" which was one of the last songs by Bon Scott.
Léon Carré
Léon Georges Jean-Baptiste Carré (23 June 1878 – 2 December 1942) was a French Orientalist painter and illustrator, noted for illustrating the book, "The Book of One Thousand and One Nights."
Ray Bomba
Ray Bomba (February 14, 1907 – June 24, 1986) was an American sound editor who was nominated during the 18th Academy Awards for the film "A Thousand and One Nights" in the category of Best Special Effects.
His nomination was shared with Lawrence W. Butler.
Katharine McPhee
Katharine Hope McPhee Foster (born March 25, 1984) is an American actress, singer, and songwriter.
In May 2006, she was the runner-up on the fifth season of "American Idol."
Her self-titled debut album was released on RCA Records on January 30, 2007, and debuted at number two on the "Billboard" 200, selling 381,000 copies (as of December 2010).
The album's first single, "Over It", was a Pop Top 30 hit and was certified gold in 2008.
Her second album, "Unbroken", was released on Verve Forecast Records on January 5, 2010, and debuted at No. 27 on the "Billboard 200".
The album featured the single "Had It All", which peaked at number 22 on the AC chart.
It has sold 45,000 copies as of January 2011.
Her third album, the holiday-themed "Christmas Is the Time to Say I Love You", was released on October 12, 2010.
The album debuted at number 11 on the "Billboard" Top Holiday Albums chart, while the single "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" peaked at number 16 on the "Billboard" AC chart.
As of January 2011, this album had sold 23,000 copies.
McPhee released her fourth album, "Hysteria", on September 18, 2015.
She released her fifth album, "I Fall in Love Too Easily", composed of jazz standards, on November 17, 2017.
McPhee has also established an acting career, co-starring in "The House Bunny" and "Shark Night 3D".
She played Karen Cartwright, one of the lead roles on "Smash".
From 2014 to 2018, she starred in CBS' "Scorpion" as Paige Dineen.
Mikhail Salye
Mikhail Alexandrovich Salye (21 August 1899 – 17 August 1961) was a Soviet Arabist scholar and translator.
Salye was the first to translate "One Thousand and One Nights" into Russian directly from the Arabic source.
Additionally, he translated into Russian seven tales not contained in the Calcutta II edition of "One Thousand and One Nights" (from the manuscript in the National Library of Russia).
In 1919–1923 Salye studied in the Saint Petersburg Institute of Oriental Languages.
In 1926, having graduated from the Saint Petersburg State University, Salye entered the Institute of the Comparative Analysis of the Literatures and Languages of the West and East of that university.
In 1921–22 Salye made trips to Tashkent, where he lectured at a local institute.
In 1934 Salye was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR.
He translated Tawfiq al-Hakim and other authors.
Salye is buried at the Botkinskoye Cemetery in Tashkent.
A Thousand and One Nights (Smash song)
"A Thousand and One Nights" is an original song introduced in the twelfth episode of the first season of the musical TV series "Smash", entitled "Publicity".
It was written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, but in the episode, it's presented as a character's fantasy of a Bollywood musical number so the songwriter is unnamed.
In the episode, Karen Cartwright (Katharine McPhee and her boyfriend Dev (Raza Jaffrey) are having a tense dinner with movie star Rebecca Duvall (Uma Thurman) at an Indian restaurant.
Rebecca has taken over as the lead in the Marilyn Monroe musical "Bombshell", while Karen is her understudy.
However, Rebecca has taken Karen out for quite a bit of partying, which has caused tensions between Karen and Dev.
During the meal, Rebecca and Dev start to argue about who is the one harming Karen.
An uncomfortable Karen starts watching a Bollywood movie on one of the screens, and then imagines herself in a Bollywood-style movie with first Dev, then herself singing the song, with practically the entire rest of the main cast and various supporting players of the series performing as backup.
The song is sung in the style of an Indian Bollywood song, with the performers dressed in Indian clothes.
The song is currently available as a single from iTunes.
Lutf Ali
Lutf Ali( 1716–1794) was a Saraiki poet from Bahawalpur, Punjab.
He was born in the village of Mao in present day Rahim Yar Khan District.
He wrote the popular narrative poem" Saifalnāma" in 1781 based on a tale from the One Thousand and One Nights.

Question: What nationality is the performer of song A Thousand And One Nights (Smash Song)?
Answer: American