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Fatimah Asghar is a South Asian American poet, director and screenwriter. Co-creator and writer for the Emmy-nominated webseries Brown Girls , their work has appeared in Poetry , [ 1 ] Gulf Coast , BuzzFeed Reader , The Margins , The Offing , Academy of American Poets , [ 2 ] and other publications.
Lullaby by François Nicholas Riss A lullaby (/ ˈ l ʌ l ə b aɪ /), or a cradle song, is a soothing song or piece of music that is usually played for (or sung to) children (for adults see music and sleep). The purposes of lullabies vary. In some societies, they are used to pass down cultural knowledge or tradition.
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"Hush-a-bye baby" in The Baby's Opera, A book of old Rhymes and The Music by the Earliest Masters, ca. 1877. The rhyme is generally sung to one of two tunes. The only one mentioned by the Opies in The Oxford Book of Nursery Rhymes (1951) is a variant of Henry Purcell's 1686 quickstep Lillibullero, [2] but others were once popular in North America.
"Hush, Little Baby" is a traditional lullaby, thought to have been written in the Southern United States.The lyrics are from the point of view of a parent trying to appease an upset child by promising to give them a gift.
Directed by Sam Bailey and written by Fatimah Asghar, the series was inspired by Asghar's 10-year-long friendship with singer Jamila Woods. Scripting began in the fall of 2015, and Bailey joined the project after a public reading in early 2016. Founder of Open TV Aymar Jean Christian added the project to the web platform's slate.
Asghar wrote the novel during a "period of extreme rejection". [1] Before the novel, Asghar had not written fiction, and described writing the book as "one of the hardest artistic endeavors I've ever done". [1] Krista Franklin encouraged Asghar to "write the book however it was coming" as she worked. [2] Asghar was inspired by the novel We the ...
It was written by Fatimah Asghar and directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. Iman Vellani stars as Kamala Khan, alongside Matt Lintz, Zenobia Shroff, Rish Shah, Samina Ahmad, Fawad Khan, Nimra Bucha, Mehwish Hayat, Adaku Ononogbo, and Aramis Knight. Obaid-Chinoy joined the series by September 2020 to direct two episodes.