Abbas Mousa emigrated to the United States in 2009 from Iraq through the Special Immigrant Program for Iraqi translators and was granted U.S. citizenship. Mousa received his Master’s degree in summer of 2015 in Economics and now works as an Economist for the Department of Commerce. He so enjoys the art of storytelling that he's become a regular storyteller with The Moth StorySLAMs in DC. Mousa is currently writing his memoir and has a three novel-series to work on after finishing his first book.