In 1990, when he was just nine, Mohammed “Mo” Amer fled his birth country of Kuwait with his family to escape the violence of the Gulf War. They sought asylum in Houston, moving from, as Amer puts it, “one oil juggernaut to another.” Amer’s experiences as a Muslim refugee (he became an American citizen in 2009) gave him plenty of talking points when, in December 2016—because of happenstance or, as he suspects, an airline employee who supported Hillary Clinton—he was seated next to Eric Trump on a flight, leading to an exchange that went viral. But more notably, they serve as the backbone of his comedy career, which he has steadily built since the age of fourteen in his adopted hometown. In 2015, he got…The post Mo Amer on Growing Up as a Muslim Refugee in Houston appeared first on Texas Monthly.