Silvana Naguib·Jul 26When your child is born, it feels like there is a new appendage on your body all of a sudden.I felt guilty they were having to take care of her, I wanted to know she was okay by holding her in my arms, but also I was completely…
Silvana Naguib·Jul 17Endless SummerOn the hottest summer night so far this year, I wonder if I’ll ever be able to get to sleep. The evening stretches past eleven p.m. waiting…
Silvana Naguib·Sep 26, 2025I am in unknown territory.When you are young you don’t understand the benefits of age. Your classic teenager — and I was a mental teenager well into my twenties —…
Silvana Naguib·Nov 28, 2024The NeptuneI saw the Viking Neptune come in this morning. It was dumb luck; I rounded the corner onto 5th and Harbor just as it was pulling into view…
Silvana Naguib·Aug 29, 2023Zagazig is a place in EgyptEvery time I look at my daughter I see three people. Me, my own father, and her.A response icon1A response icon1
Silvana Naguib·Aug 3, 2022Bio-breakTo work in modern American society is to be a robot. We are the strangest robots ever created. Some of us are robots that still make things…
Silvana Naguib·Aug 1, 2022Too great to liveUntil an overcast spring day, walking on a grassy shoulder of a thoroughfare in in Rockville, Maryland, I believed I was going to die…
Silvana Naguib·Dec 3, 2020I feel helpless and powerless.The last couple weeks of the pandemic have seen two things happening in my world. One the one hand, after many months of shutdown and…
Silvana Naguib·Jun 16, 2020Dancing your way to freedomWhen I was 13, I was cast as the lead in the school musical. I was pudgy with adolescence, right in that moment where grown men could…
