The War Diaries

Derek Henry Flood is an independent writer and photojournalist. He is currently the editor of the Jamestown Foundation publication Militant Leadership Monitor. His focus is primarily on Middle Eastern and South Asian affairs and Islamic issues with additional emphases on Central Asia and the Caucasus. While studying Political Geography at San Diego State University, his interest in political Islam grew organically after spending time in Iran and Pakistan researching the rise of the Taleban movement for his senior thesis in 1999-2000.

He has covered the recent wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon as well as their domestic repercussions in the United States. He appears on BBC World Service and BBC Arabic television as an international affairs contributor and has appeared in print in Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung [Germany], Wissenmedia [Germany], Time, Le Figaro [France], La Tribune [France], Le Vif [Belgium], L’Espresso [Italy], and Les Inrockuptibles [France] among others. His work regularly appears online with Asia Times, The Digital Journalist, The Huffington Post and The Jamestown Foundation.

He is currently at work on memoir of his experiences and analysis of the after effects of suicide terrorism on the United States and the launch of the ill-fated “Global War on Terror.”