Faisal Siddiqui · Engineer & writer

Writing toward
the hidden history.

I write from lived experience—from consciousness, contradiction, failure, and the limits of what I know.

I write to notice what often remains hidden: the memories we inherit, the beliefs we absorb, and the selves we gradually become.

Friedrich Nietzsche called it historia abscondita—the hidden history still at work within us.

Faisal Siddiqui
Karachi, Pakistan

Engineering & AI

Engineering judgment,
supported by intelligent tools.

Alongside his writing, Faisal works as an independent process engineering consultant and is developing Tadabbur AI around the way engineers actually work.

What I have been working on

Three books. A continuing inquiry.

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Birds cover

Published · Parenthood reconsidered

Birds

What raising children teaches a parent about love, authority, independence, and learning to let go.

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Essays, observations & dialogues

From my writing desk.

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The Machinery of Belief · Audiobook

A moment to listen.

Before the Machine Begins — an opening from the audiobook.

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About Faisal

An engineer’s eye.
A life revisited through questions.

I am a chemical engineer and writer based in Karachi. My work moves between systems, beliefs, and the ordinary experiences that change how we understand ourselves.

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mfaysalsidd@gmail.com

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