B.1975 Philadelphia- Derek Henry Flood is an American writer and photojournalist focusing on Middle Eastern, Central and South Asian affairs and issues within political Islam. He has covered the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon as well as their domestic repercussions in the United States. He has appeared on BBC World Service radio and BBC Arabic television and in print in L’Espresso, Le Vif, Time, Le Figaro, La Tribune,and online with Asia Times and The Jamestown Foundation and worked in investigative journalism for Georgetown University and the Center for Public Integrity in Washington D.C.