[Secret Agent Man]

why didn’t he just divorce her saying it three times?

[cloudmountain]

I lived in the middle east for five years and it's almost IMPOSSIBLE to get a divorce. A man doesn't just divorce a wife, easy to do in the West, he divorces an entire family tribe.
Marriages are ALL arranged. Men have no more choice that women. In Saudi Arabia, the women of the family take the ENTIRE matter into their own busybody hands.