J.D. Harlock

Jun 10, 2024 | businessinsider.com | J.D. Harlock

Careers The author lost all his savings in a financial crisis. J Studios/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . In 2020, I quit my career in accounting and decided to focus on my real dream: writing. I planned on living off my life savings, but I lost it all in Lebanon's financial crisis.

Apr 26, 2024 | publicsource.org | J.D. Harlock

Ever since I came of age, I’ve been preparing to leave behind the turmoil of Lebanon for the promises of the American Dream. Before I was born in the United States in 1996 — only to be whisked right back to Lebanon in my infancy — numerous relatives from both sides of my extended family had made a home for themselves there across generations. I was certain I would one day follow in their footsteps and find similar success.

Mar 13, 2024 | nightmare-magazine.com | Wendy Wagner |J.D. Harlock

“What’s your favorite scary movie?”It’s a question I’m often asked, and, for the longest time, I never had an answer to it. In a genre as storied and diverse as horror, anyone would be hard-pressed for a response. What’s certain, though, is few, if any, casual viewers would pick a slasher film. Dubbed derogatorily as “Dead Teenager Films” by their critics, slashers have been derided as low-budget cash-ins on lurid horror trends catered to braindead teenagers since the early days of the genre.

Nov 9, 2023 | tricycle.org | J.D. Harlock

As long as I can remember, I have felt a distance from the culture that has surrounded me. Try as I might, I could never reconcile the disparity between what I wanted out of my life and what was expected of me by my community in Lebanon, and around the Arab world at large. Having grown up spending time in many different locales across the Middle East—from Beirut to Baku to Amman and beyond—I had seen and experienced a pretty comprehensive overview of the wider area’s culture and mores.

Mar 9, 2023 | middleeasteye.net | J.D. Harlock

Since the dawn of Islam, Muslims have studied cosmology. This is a branch of both physics and metaphysics that enquires into the nature of our universe, posing theories on its origins, dynamics, evolution, and end. The medieval Arab world's interest in cosmology is demonstrated by the number of stars that are still known by Arabic names, and by the extensive body of research by Arab scholars in fields such as algebra and trigonometry, which are heavily featured in astronomy.