Claudia Aranda

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…

Critical Semiotics in the Age of Generative AI While the world celebrates the creativity of machines, human language is under siege. Beneath the rhetoric of efficiency, accessibility, and expanding possibilities, a silent operation is underway: governing language from outside lived…

The sky opened not only over Florida. It opened over my chest. I saw it live, on the screen, but with the intensity of someone witnessing more than a launch: a reaffirmation of what we are still capable of doing…

I ADDRESS YOU, MR. PRESIDENT: While Brazil steps forward with decisive sanctions, President Boric’s ever-classic “let’s be cautious” reveals itself as inaction that condemns Chile to the role of a mere spectator in the historic passage of a genocide. This…

Throughout the 20th century, intelligence quotient (IQ) scores experienced a sustained increase—known as the Flynn Effect—which has been revised over the past two decades by new studies documenting a reversal in industrialized countries. This phenomenon, confirmed by longitudinal research and…