- The bad luck divorce
Arab divorce cases you won't believe are real
- Divorce over Cristiano Ronaldo
A Saudi man beat up his wife for cheering football player Cristiano Ronaldo during a football match. Right afterward, the woman packed her bags, moved back in with her parents and filed for divorce.
- Divorce over the sheep head
A Saudi man was having his friends over, and his wife was to cook for them. She served them rice and meat, but the husband was outraged when he saw that she didn’t add the sheep’s head to the dish. He marched towards the kitchen, yelled and divorced here on the spot for ‘embarrassing’ him in front of his guests.
- The Snapchat divorce
A Jordanian couple were out for dinner, the husband was furious over his wife taking pictures and videos of their food, which he wasn’t allowed to touch until she finishes filming. He interrupted her Snapchat session to start an argument, it escalated into her biting his arm and he divorced her at the restaurant and left.
- The Instagram divorce
A woman in Kuwait ended up divorcing her husband for liking other women’s pictures on Instagram. The husband tried to talk her out of and change her mind, she replied by saying: ‘If he's liking photos now, what's going to happen further down the line?’
- The dry divorce
A couple in Dubai ended up divorcing six days into their honeymoon for her refusal to have sex with him. Several attempts were made to reconcile the two but they insisted on going ahead with the divorce.
- The house chores divorce
A newly wedded wife left her husband because, according to her, acts like the woman in the relationship with his constant cooking, cleaning and taking care of the house. The wife said she feels like she’s living at hotel with all her needs being met and nothing to do.
- The ‘too beautiful’ divorce
A groom’s parents asked him to divorce his wife because she is ‘too beautiful’, and they feared other people ‘evil eye’ and ‘envy’. The divorced wife had to leave Dammam and move back to her native Morocco after the divorce.
- The shawarma divorce
An Egyptian woman left her husband and divorced him when he refused to buy her a shwarma sandwich. She accused her husband of being stingy throughout their marriage.
- The birthday surprise divorce
A newlywed left the house to get a surprise birthday dinner for her husband. He was shocked to find her out when he came home, and when she came back, took her to her parents’ house and divorced her.