finally <\/em>made a friend in Egypt.<\/p>\nNicole\u2019s problem making friends wasn\u2019t a personality issue. Mahmoud just refused to \u201callow\u201d her to go out for most activities until she found the women-only guided meditation class.<\/p>\n
Nouran is an Egyptian woman and a Muslim. Not only did she quickly become friends with Nicole, but she also instantly understood Nicole\u2019s marriage.<\/p>\n
To Mahmoud\u2019s horror, she opened Nicole\u2019s eyes to some realities about life in Egypt. Naturally, Nicole\u2019s husband and her friend immediately clashed upon meeting.<\/p>\n<\/noscript>At the start of Season 4, Episode 10 of 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way, Nicole Sherbiny had been back in Egypt for about four months.<\/p>\n
She and her husband, Mahmoud Elsherbiny, had managed to find a peaceful coexistence instead of constantly fighting.<\/p>\n
Their secret? Not actually talking about their issues. So nothing changed, nothing got better. Nicole was still dressing per his wishes, living in his mother\u2019s house, spending almost all of her time at home.<\/p>\nSome things had improved. Nicole was making use of a seemingly new air conditioning unit (or perhaps we simply had not seen it before).<\/p>\n
Mahmoud did seem to sort of neg her about having used it. We have seen him get passive aggressive before, so that was no surprise.<\/p>\n
She didn\u2019t have it especially cold (no surprise, for a woman from Los Angeles) from what we can see. Especially considering that they\u2019re in Egypt<\/em>. It just seemed like Mahmoud couldn\u2019t resist commenting on it.<\/p>\nInterestingly, Nicole revealed that she and Mahmoud had gone looking at other homes. They are a young married couple, currently living in a single bedroom in his mom\u2019s high-traffic home.<\/p>\n
Moving would mean having their own bathroom \u2014 a real, modern bathroom, where the shower does not also include the toilet. Right now, they share one bathroom with everyone.<\/p>\n
However, they did not move out. Mahmoud, Nicole explained, was simply unwilling to leave his mom\u2019s house. Viewers have seen this before, in and out of America.<\/p>\nMahmoud\u2019s insistence that Nicole not go out on her own and only seldom out with him really made it difficult for her to make friends. Or to, you know, enjoy her life in Egypt.<\/p>\n
However, though Mahmoud would not allow her to take yoga (in case she stretched and a man saw her clothed body), she was able to sign up for an all women guided meditation class.<\/p>\n
Not only did her mental and emotional health clearly need this, but Nicole ended up making a friend.<\/p>\nNouran is an Egyptian woman. She is also a Muslim woman. She very quickly understood Nicole\u2019s situation.<\/p>\n
She knows that Mahmoud is from a particularly conservative neighborhood and family. Nouran was quick to emphasize that not all of Egypt is quite what Mahmoud makes it out to be. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, she opened up to Nicole about her own background. She is a Muslim woman who, like millions of women like her, makes her own choices about how to dress and live her life.<\/p>\nMahmoud has made some changes for Nicole\u2019s sake. Not \u201callowing her to choose her own clothing\u201d and not \u201cmoving into their own place as a couple\u201d kinds of changes, but changes.<\/p>\n
For example, he did not forbid her from taking this guided meditation class. Mahmoud explained that this is because he knows that she is unhappy.<\/p>\n
He also went out to dinner with her. This, in Mahmoud\u2019s world, seems to be unusual. Or maybe that\u2019s only when it involves dining with friends?<\/p>\nMahmoud may have bitten his tongue at first about Nicole\u2019s new class.<\/p>\n
But as Nicole began to excitedly tell him about her new friend, he clearly felt defensive.<\/p>\n
Nicole\u2019s new friend is an Egyptian Muslim woman \u2026 but not one living exactly according to Mahmoud\u2019s standards. (Remember, even Mahmoud\u2019s own brother does not live as strict of a life as Mahmoud seems to demand from Nicole)<\/p>\nNouran had shared some of her own experiences with dating. Her family had told her that she, as an adult, should make her own choices about how to dress. <\/p>\n
Later, she had met a man who tried to demand that he make those choices for her. You know, just like<\/em> Mahmoud is doing to Nicole.<\/p>\nOf course, Mahmoud bristled at this, thinking that Nicole\u2019s new friend was scaring her off of all Egyptian men. Or maybe he just realized that he was no longer the only person telling Nicole what life is like in Egypt.<\/p>\nMahmoud predicted that Nouran would cause problems in his marriage. How? Likely by exposing Nicole to the realities and variety of lifestyles of Muslim women in Egypt.<\/p>\n
Nouran arrived to meet Mahmoud at dinner. She was wearing a dress with sleeves.<\/p>\n
To Mahmoud, this was a scandalous outfit \u2014 and a confirmation of all of his \u201cfears\u201d about his wife\u2019s new friend.<\/p>\nMany people will sort of make polite conversation \u2014 often without saying much of substance \u2014 when first meeting someone.<\/p>\n
In fact, even when you meet someone whom you know that you dislike, most people will still stay cool and polite.<\/p>\n
Not in this case. Mahmoud, whose voiceover to the camera griped about Nouran\u2019s clothing (his desire for control extends well beyond his wife), more or less challenged Nouran to reinforce his presentation of what life is like in Egypt.<\/p>\nBasically, Mahmoud wanted Nouran to reinforce everything that he has been telling Nicole. In his mind, that is what life is like in Egypt \u2026 if you ignore the rest of it.<\/p>\n
That is more or less Nouran\u2019s assessment of him.<\/p>\n
She told the camera that she\u2019s known men like Mahmoud before. They haven\u2019t experienced anything outside of their small bubble \u2014 the way that their family does things. And they\u2019re not interested in broadening their horizons.<\/p>\nThat absolutely fits with what viewers have seen of Mahmoud.<\/p>\n
The guy is nearly 30, but refuses to move out of his mom\u2019s place. Even though he has a wife, even though he has a job.<\/p>\n
Mahmoud even admitted to Nicole in a previous episode that he couldn\u2019t imagine changing his life as much as she has changed hers. (Of course, that hasn\u2019t stopped him from demanding further changes from her)<\/p>\nNouran asked how Mahmoud would feel if Nicole took her yoga class instead of just the meditation. She already knew the answer.<\/p>\n
He said no. Mahmoud balked at the idea that a male student might see Nicole during her stretches.<\/p>\n
Nouran tried to reason with him (a mistake), noting that essentially punishing Nicole for the eyes and thoughts of a man doesn\u2019t seem very fair. It isn\u2019t!<\/p>\nMahmoud then pivoted to discussing the Quran. Or, more accurately, to his interpretation.<\/p>\n
Nouran was quick to point out that he was acting as if Islam\u2019s holy book contained specific instructions that it does not.<\/p>\n
But, more to the point, she cited passages in the Quran that encourage devout Muslims to make their own choices.<\/p>\nIn other words, a few words might have changed and you\u2019d be seeing an argument between two Christians over their own holy book. <\/p>\n
Only a few faiths have central holy texts that instruct them on how to live their lives, but many religious folks have similar debates.<\/p>\n
In Mahmoud\u2019s case, that debate included him doubling down on gender essentialism \u2026 believing that men and women can never be equal because women are, in his mind, just too darn sexy. Because of boobs<\/em>.<\/p>\nMahmoud\u2019s argument was essentially that women are so alluring that they must cover up.<\/p>\n
He felt that, meanwhile, men\u2019s bodies aren\u2019t as interesting. That\u2019s \u2026 clearly Mahmoud\u2019s take, but hardly one with universal consensus.<\/p>\n
Nouran\u2019s key point was more about it being a personal choice than anything else. Again, Millions of Muslim women throughout the world (including Egypt) make their own choices. Mahmoud doesn\u2019t want Nicole to do that, however.<\/p>\nNicole watched all of this play out with fascination and discomfort.<\/p>\n
These are essentially the only two people she knows in the whole country. Everyone else is either a producer for the show, or one of Mahmoud\u2019s relatives.<\/p>\n
She did not expect them to hit it off, necessarily. But she didn\u2019t expect them to debate passages in the Quran within minutes of meeting.<\/p>\nNouran did not mince words when she spoke to the camera after this.<\/p>\n
Simply put, she could never do what Nicole is doing \u2014 surrender her autonomy to a man just to keep him happy.<\/p>\n
Will all of this open Nicole\u2019s eyes to the real options that she can have as a Muslim woman in Egypt? Or will she just keep giving in to almost everything that Mahmoud wants?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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