James Verini is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and National Geographic. He has also written for the New Yorker, the Atavist, and other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award and a George Polk Award.
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James Verini arrived in Iraq in the summer of 2016 to write about life in the Islamic State. He stayed to cover the jihadis' last great stand, the Battle of Mosul, not knowing it would go on for nearly a year, nor that it would become, in the words of the... SEE MORE