Unmasking the mind behind the masks
Welcome to the world of Arwad Publishing. On this page, we invite you to meet the author of 'The Masks of Delusion', delve into their profound journey, and uncover the inspirations that shaped this transformative work. Prepare to explore the depths of thought that challenge our perceptions and ignite a new understanding of our complex world.
The journey behind 'The Masks of Delusion'
Author Bio
Ziad A. W. Khalifeh is a researcher, writer, translator and independent thinker whose work explores the intersections of philosophy, ethics, science, religion, and the human condition. His writing is shaped by a lifelong engagement with questions of balance, proportion, and responsibility—what he has elsewhere described as the search for equilibrium across personal, social, and cosmic scales.
Drawing on lived experience as much as abstract inquiry, Khalifeh approaches contemporary questions not through ideology or technical prescription, but through reflective dialogue and moral restraint. His work resists definitive answers in favor of careful weighing—of ideas, consequences, and human limits.
He lives in the United Kingdom.
Beneath the masks: a deeper truth
'The Masks of Delusion' traces the cracks of modernity from five angles: the illusion of control over nature, the illusion of limitless progress, the illusion of fixed identity, the illusion of absolute rationality, and the illusion of permanent stability. We live in a civilisation built on masks – masks of science, religion, capitalism, technology, identity, and progress. Each mask promises truth, meaning, and salvation while simultaneously concealing a deeper flaw. Beneath all those masks lies a single truth – a law older than language and broader than science: Balance. All components of existence, from quarks to galaxies to civilisations, and from the human psyche to the metaphysical structure, stand only on balance. And everything that collapses does so because of its disturbance.
منذ أن وعيت على نفسي، كانت الأسئلة تسكنني ولا تغادر، أسئلة عن الوجود، والوعي، والله، والعِلم، والسلطة، والحضارة، ومصير العقل البشري. مع ذلك التفكر بدأ هذا الكتاب، محاولة شخصية، رحلة عمرٍ لإدراك التناقضات والمفارقات، لماذا يبدو العالم أكثر تشظياً، ولماذا يغدو العِلم - رغم اتّساعه - عاجزاً أحياناً، ولماذا تقف الإنسانية، بالرغم من عبقريها، على شفا جُرف هارٍ، تفصلها برهة قصيرة عن الانهيار والدمار التي صنعته بيديها. رحلةٌ فكرية تمتدّ عبر العلم والفلسفة والميتافيزيقا وتكنولوجيا المستقبل، لتكشف أنّ أزمات عصرنا المتشابكة ليست سوى وجوه مختلفة يمكنكم اختزالها في خلل واحد: تجاهل قانون التوازن. جميع ٍأشكال الانهيار الاجتماعي، النفسي، التقني، الاقتصادي، والبيئي تُجسّد بوضوح أن العالم ينهار ليس بسبب الضعف، بل لأنّ أقنعته لم تعد قادرة على إخفاء التعب والاحتراق الداخلي للنظام العالمي.