Claudia Aranda

It is not fatigue: it is erosion. Reality, when it touches you daily with the coldness of a war report and the smell of a morgue, wears you down from the inside until it makes invisible the edges that once…

For a few seconds, my imagination staged a surreal scene: a gray, fortified building in the middle of the ice, with the flags of Russia and the United States flying side by side, as if the Cold War had ended…

This article examines supremacism as a transhistorical technology of power, breaking down its operating mechanisms, its institutional translation, and its consequences for human coexistence. It argues that supremacism, far from being a marginal phenomenon, is a recurring pattern that manifests…

There are ruins that are not only the end of a building but also the beginning of a new era. At this historical moment, the smoking ruins of Gaza are not evidence of a war but the epitaph of the…

On Sunday, August 10, 2025, an Israeli airstrike hit a press tent set up next to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, killing five journalists who were covering the humanitarian crisis under fire. Among them were two colleagues from Al Jazeera: correspondent…

(In Kazakh culture, the yurt is the traditional nomadic dwelling: a portable circular structure symbolizing home, hospitality, and community.) “Music alone cannot change the world, but it can change people, and people can change the world.” —Dimash Qudaibergen We live…

A Clinical, Ethical, and Human Call from Al-Shifa Collective Chronicle from the Epicenter of Gaza’s Health Crisis “I can’t go on” “It was like a ‘March 11’ every single day,” repeats Dr. Raúl Incertis, a Spanish anesthesiologist recently returned from…

The image is moving and sublime. A ballerina in full grand jeté, suspended in the air with a Chilean flag waving above her head, while behind her a water cannon truck and an ammunition carrier loom: a symbol of criminal…

This column responds to the debate sparked by my previous editorial critiquing President Boric’s cautious stance amid the genocide in Gaza. It is not a personal critique nor a polemical gesture, but a demand for coherence grounded in international law.…

The image is brutal. The explosion—like a torn throat—shatters the silence of the night and lights up the ruins of Gaza surrounding the UN clinic, which blew into a thousand pieces, leaving behind yet another toll of dead and injured…