James Verini is a magazine journalist who has reported extensively from Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere. His reporting on the fall of ISIS in Iraq and the battle for Mosul in The New York Times Magazine and National Geographic, where he is a Contributing Writer, was into a book for WW Norton, They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate, published in 2019. He also writes for The New Yorker, The Atavist Magazine, and others.

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