 Following the cessation of hostilities, Mousawi was invited to speak to European audiences in Ireland, Germany and the UK, where he was announced as a Hezbollah spokesman on posters of the Stop the War Coalition.Mousawi received a PhD in Political Islam from Birmingham University in 2007.The title of his dissertation was ""Compatibility between Islam and democracy; Shiism and democracy under Wilayat Al-Faqih, Iran as a case study"".