Dubai Bling (2022) s02e08 Episode Script
Marry Me?
1
-Oh, my God!
-[Manar] Sultana.
Finally, I can't believe it.
After a whole year. I cannot believe it.
Hi.
Sweetheart.
Finally, I get to see your face.
After a whole year,
LJ's mother and I get to meet.
My dear, welcome to Dubai.
When Lojain Omran opened the door,
I gave her a huge hug.
We barely know each other, but I love her.
-How are you, darling?
-I'm good. How was your trip?
-Thank God it was okay.
-For a whole year, I've been on edge.
You were coming. You weren't.
For a whole year,
I've been trying to get her
to come from America all the way to Dubai.
And finally, I get to see her face.
[Manar] I couldn't wait anymore.
And in my heart,
my heart wanted to be here honestly.
[sighs] So, but I made it.
I made it finally!
I thank God that after all these years
I'm finally in Dubai.
I don't know if I'll be able
to see my daughter.
I came here for her after all.
It's been hard for LJ.
She needs her mother.
There was a very hard situation.
I didn't do it because I planned to do
-Yeah, I know.
-to leave my daughter.
When I look back, I'm like
I never, ever imagined
to be separated from my kids.
-How old were they when you left?
-I didn't leave them.
They took them away from me.
I was 16 when I got married,
so I wasn't mature enough to be married.
I was pregnant with LJ when my husband
decided to move us to America,
and this is where the problem starts.
So, I was so naive.
I want to leave the marriage,
but I don't want to leave the kids.
I'm not saying that I'm an angel.
It's not like I came from heaven
and I'm a perfect person.
No, I'm not perfect.
But at the same time, I was young.
Yeah.
At a certain point, when she was talking,
I felt like she was talking about me.
As if she was describing me.
We both got divorced
and had our children taken away from us.
Every word you're saying is something
that I've experienced myself.
No one can understand
what you've been through like I do.
All you need is to listen to one another.
So if I can play a part in reconciling
a mother and her children, why not?
Life is way too short.
Obviously, she doesn't know that
I've invited LJ to come over to my house.
But when LJ asked me,
"Is it a special occasion?"
I said, "My parents are here,
and I'd like you to meet them."
I can't imagine what it'll be like
when they see each other.
DUBAI BLING
[dramatic music playing]
[doorbell rings]
The doorbell rang
and my heart jumped to open the door.
I was excited.
-[Loujain] Hello.
-[Lojain] Hi.
-[Lojain] Hi! Hug, because I miss you.
-How are you? I miss you!
At that point my heart was racing.
She had no idea.
Okay, we have something to celebrate.
Huh? Oh, my God!
-Really?
-[Lojain chuckles]
Oh, my God!
You're here?
I don't know what to say.
How are you?
Oh, my God!
I was shocked.
She was the last person I expected to see.
It was, it was
I can't even explain the feeling.
[Manar] I couldn't believe that I was
actually hugging my daughter. I feel her.
I feel her. I feel her body close to me.
-You're so pretty.
-Oh, no, you are.
-Now you know who you take after.
-[laughs]
You're so beautiful!
I was happy because
I felt that I achieved something.
I was able to do
what no one was able to do for me.
Last year,
same time like today I was saying,
"I hope next year we can be together."
And I told you we will. Remember?
Yeah. [sniffles]
My baby.
[Loujain] Last year, for Mother's Day,
I asked my mom to come.
I sent her a message,
and now my mom is here
next to me.
-Come here with us.
-[all chuckling]
This hug is really what I needed.
I really wanted to be in her arms.
I really wanted to feel her and see her.
Like, wow, like this is really my mom.
It was so beautiful to see her.
I'm happy you came. That's what matters.
That you're actually here now
and that we can
[inhales deeply] start again.
I want to relive my childhood with you.
Can you do breakfast for me?
I have no problem.
-I want you to help with my kids.
-Whatever you want.
I can't wait to seen them.
As long as she accept me in her life.
Of course I accept you, Mommy.
-Oh, really, baby?
-Yeah.
This is my dream. My dream come true.
I want to make up for all these years.
I'm ready.
I'm ready from a long time ago,
long time ago.
I can't stop looking at you.
I just want to look at you
after all these years of not seeing you.
I did not I never, ever forget.
Not even one day
I want to be away from you.
[cries] I'm sorry.
[pensive music playing]
[upbeat music playing]
[Arabic hip-hop music playing]
[Ebraheem] Danya and I
are getting ready to open
our new business, the Besties Café.
We have a lot of work to do,
so no time to waste.
The most important thing is the location.
So finally, I got the keys
for one of the important locations
that we're going to be choosing.
-Dubai is so beautiful.
-[Danya] Wow!
-Mashallah.
-Look at this beautiful location.
-Is this the one?
-This is the one. Yep.
The positive part of this one
is that you have a corner unit
and it's on the main walkway,
and that's the drop off
where all the tourist buses comes.
-[Danya] Amazing!
-Yeah.
Whenever I enter a new business,
so it works,
I say, "Bismillah"
and enter with right foot.
Bismillah.
Ta-da!
Oh, wow! So pretty.
-I really like it.
-Oh, my God! The dust.
People are passing by and they want
to come in. It's not even open.
-Hello, customers.
-Hi!
Come in. We're going to be open soon.
It's the Besties Café!
-I actually love this location.
-But listen
A lot of people
didn't believe in us working together.
DANYA MOHAMMED
So we need to work extra hard
to prove everyone wrong.
I'm thinking for our launch,
to invite Zeina.
Zeina's my girl now.
I mean, come on.
Be serious.
No, I'm serious.
You've been fighting all year,
and now "my girl"?
This is our vibe this year.
We're trying to be better people.
Danya has struggled.
She wants some peace of mind.
I don't blame her for wanting peace.
If she wants to call Zeina,
I don't mind. On the contrary.
But for me, no.
You invite Safa, I'll invite Zeina,
let's see if they show up.
It'll be nice to have everyone together,
even though we don't get along.
But don't you feel like
they'll give us the evil eye?
-Yeah, but
-They're jealous people.
We're cool. Me and her are cool now.
Be cool with her.
But when the snake sheds its skin,
it only sheds to become a bigger snake.
-Oof!
-Just be careful.
[crow caws]
[soothing music playing]
I wake up every morning
feeling so grateful for my little girls.
I'm so happy they have each other
and I have them.
I've never been happier.
How much do you love Ayana?
-Hundred thousand.
-Hundred thousand?
Zeina's coming over to pop by.
I don't even know if you can handle it ♪
All I know is you can have it ♪
-This is a chai karak for you, Mum.
-Chai karak for me?
And this is some hot cocoa
for Aunty Zeina.
-Aunty Zeina's gonna have hot cocoa?
-Yeah.
-Hello.
-Hi, babe. [kisses]
ZEINA KHOURY
-How are you?
-[Alina] Welcome, Aunty Zeina.
[with sore throat] Hello! How are you?
Did you see my voice?
-What happened to your voice?
-I don't know. It's been coming and going.
-Babe, it's crazy.
-The evil eye.
This is the evil eye?
Can you go get ginger for Aunty Zeina?
By the way, where's Fahad?
I don't know. I would check,
but I don't have the app anymore.
I have decided to delete
that tracking app.
I don't want to obsess anymore.
I mean, like, I can't let Fahad think
I'm so obsessed over him.
He should be the one obsessing over me,
not the other way around.
I have to keep calling him.
This more psychotic.
How am I supposed to know
where my husband is now?
I have to be like a normal person
and call him.
I'm not calling him.
Babe, what are we going to do with Fahad
to let me do my surgery?
He's just against anything
that he feels is not natural.
He thinks I'm going to look different.
I needed Zeina and I to brainstorm
how to get Fahad to agree
to my mummy makeover.
I can't believe
he's agreed to see the doctor.
-Is he going?
-Yeah.
-Okay.
-You're coming with us.
I'm worried.
I'm worried that he might say no,
and I'm just exhausted.
What do you want to do? Tighten the skin?
Yeah, but he's paranoid.
Just say that it's a revision
for your C-section scar.
-Have them tighten that bit of skin.
-Can I say this?
Well, yeah.
What they don't know doesn't hurt them.
It's totally up to her
if she wants to lie. I'm just suggesting.
She decides what to tell her husband.
-[Safa exclaims]
-What's this?
[Safa clears throat] What's that?
"Grab your bestie and join us in revealing
the location of the Besties Café."
-Oh, you got an invitation?
-Mm.
You know this number?
It's Danya.
[Zeina] I didn't expect this message.
It's a sign that she's genuine
and she really wants to work
on making things better.
Ebraheem invited me.
I'm not sure what I'm gonna do about it.
So will you reply to the invitation?
Look, if it were only Danya's event,
maybe I would consider it.
But the two of them together,
I mean, it's a bit weird.
What happened with Ebraheem
wasn't very nice.
But the apology of Danya
caught me off guard.
Let's see if I should go
to the Besties Café opening,
or I shouldn't.
[dramatic music playing]
Brianna and I are having a baby together,
and we cannot wait to tell Mum and Dad.
So I brought them today to knock down
the official first wall
of our brand new home.
But, they had zero idea
what we really had planned.
We had this idea where we were gonna
create a message on one of the walls
we were gonna break down
with a sledgehammer.
It'll say, "We're having a baby."
To new beginnings right now.
Let me start breaking this baby down.
I've never done this before.
Here we go.
-[all exclaiming]
-Oh, okay.
My heart is pumping. Like, I'm nervous.
Amazing!
Allah! [screams]
Oh, no! You are?
-Oh, no!
-Tell me you're lying.
-Oh, my God!
-Tell me you're lying.
[Kris and Brianna] We're having a baby!
-[Noushie] What!
-[Kris] Where you looking, Dad?
-Oh, my God!
-Where are you?
Oh, my goodness!
-No way!
-You okay?
You okay?
[cries] Oh, no!
Oh, my God!
I cannot be blessed
and happier as a mother.
GILDA FAHD
-Oh, no! Oh, my God, darling.
-[Kris] That's so good, no?
-Oh, my God!
-I love you.
-[Kris] I love you. I love you. Come here.
-[Noushie] What?
So happy.
All we want for our children
is health and happiness.
The biggest surprise he's ever given us.
[sighs]
One, two.
One more.
I'm a blessed man.
I've got a new baby coming.
And the amount of love and positive energy
that I'm going to receive
when this baby comes
is going to be incredible.
Good times are on the way.
Let's go out ♪
And be the finest vibe all night
The streets keep talkin' about ♪
I want my mommy makeover, but Fahad
is not interested in me doing surgery.
So after trying many times,
I got Fahad to agree to see the doctor,
which was one step.
-Hi.
-Hi, Madam Safa.
-How are you?
-I'm good.
I have an appointment with Dr. Kotti.
Today, Zeina's coming with me
to my doctor,
and to get Fahad to agree
to my mummy makeover.
So, Doctor, now I want to have surgery.
You see, I already have two kids.
But you know what happens.
Safa starts speaking in Arabic
and I have no clue. What shit is this?
Right now, my husband
is not on board with this.
I'm dying to have this surgery.
Even after having my first child,
I wanted it.
So I brought him here to convince him.
Fahad speaks Hindi with his friends
all the time, and I don't mind.
Now it's my turn. I wanna talk about you.
If you have a problem with this,
go learn some Arabic, baby.
Maybe you can explain to him
what a mummy makeover is.
So the whole idea is like
to work on different parts of the body
in order to give back
-The same body I had.
-The same body.
It's not that I'm changing my body.
I want something super natural.
I'm not going in
trying to come out like another person.
I am going in
to enter the best version of myself.
[Dr. Kotti] It's really life-changing.
That's why we accept to do it,
as surgeons.
I think she's fine the way she is.
I don't believe in these cosmetic things.
There's a lot of risk involved.
But when you love somebody so much,
you don't want them to do something
invasive, which has risk involved.
Okay. Let's do the exam.
I'm going to call my nurse.
It's something small
that will really help.
It's not like drawing blood out.
If it was just
as simple as drawing blood out,
-do it now. It's not.
-Yes, but maybe
[Dr. Kotti] Oh, this is your job.
[chuckles]
Inshallah, let's say
we have another child,
we have to go through this process again?
What do you mean?
We agreed this was our last child.
You've yourself decided
on the family now? Come on.
Fahad thinks I am a baby-making machine.
I'll have ten kids and he'll say,
"Yeah, have more."
There's no stopping to that man.
He wants a football team.
Does he seriously think
that I'm going to have more kids?
What is he thinking?
Tackle your problems one at a time.
Just tell him, "Okay."
He's just being stubborn.
He's being stubborn with me, isn't he?
I just have to agree
to something that concerns me,
and he won't even listen to me.
Oh, my God. He's so stubborn, babe, eh?
Well, I told you.
I want a decision.
I'm sorry. You want an answer now?
-Yes.
-This very minute?
Yes.
All right, Doctor.
-Pleasure meeting you.
-Pleasure.
-Where you going?
-I'll wait outside.
Take care.
I don't like to be cornered.
Safa said you have to tell me
now, now, now.
Give me some time.
Let me just process this information
that I've just received.
[upbeat music playing]
Today I'm hosting a pitch party
MONA KATTAN
with my very good friend
and mentor, Sima Ved,
founder and chairwoman of Apparel Group,
one of the largest companies
in the Middle East and Asia.
I am an Indian girl who grew up in Dubai,
got married, started my own business.
I sold the gold that I got in my wedding
SIMA VED
that was my capital.
We built and built and built and built,
and today we are
a multi-billion dollar operation.
Mona and I have absolute clarity
that we want to be known
in this world for having helped women.
[upbeat music playing]
We've invited our co-judge,
Tara Lalvani, to the pitch party.
TARA LALVANI
She is an incredible businesswoman.
The purpose of this pitch party
is really to help
many different women
to pitch their business.
It feels like just yesterday
I was in their shoes,
having a dream, having a vision
of something that I wanted to create,
and not having the resources
to actually make them happen.
We've invited all of my friends here today
to come and share their stories
with our contestants.
Sometimes it's that one sentence
somebody says to you
that can change your life forever.
Every day's a mountain
That we try to climb ♪
I think this initiative is so inspiring
because when you become successful,
it's often hard to remember the others.
It just shows how kindhearted they are.
Hey, Diva Dee.
-Hi.
-HI.
-How are you? Hi.
-You look so cool.
[Danya] This is actually
the first time I've seen Zeina
after Lojain Omran's fashion show.
That feeling of resolution feels amazing.
There's still one more issue,
which is me and Safa.
It's actually sad
because I didn't ever do anything
personally to Safa
for her to hate me so much.
Danya was avoiding to me.
For me, I'm going to continue
to be nice to everybody.
I just want to like move on.
Like, I don't want to
continue this anymore.
[upbeat music playing]
It's such an important day
for all of us being here.
My fellow judges, we have a lot of
very eager contestants here today
and some beautiful stories as well.
I was once in the front row
where I was waiting to pitch for an idea
and I managed to raise funds.
I had one goal. I want to make it big.
I don't know how
FARHANA BODI
but I'm gonna be famous.
Me being a mother,
people were looking at me like,
"Why are you doing business?
You need to focus on your kids."
It doesn't mean that it stops you
from trying to follow your dreams.
The only thing that kept me going,
that I knew that I had that nobody
could take away, was the passion.
I feel that financial independence
gave me the strength to be who I am
in this marriage and as a mother,
because I have power.
Now it's time for our contestants
to pitch their business.
We send you a box of clothes
based on your preferences
that we think you'll like.
You keep the items you want
and send the others back.
Hoopla is a mental wellness app
for children and parents.
I'm more into
personalizing facial treatment
than I am using Korean techniques
and products, which is organic.
The Pupilar is reinventing.
We connect the youth with the industries
through role-based challenges.
We've heard all of the pitches.
Now it's time to reveal the winner.
[suspenseful music playing]
Hoopla, congratulations,
with the grand prize.
[all cheering]
So now that the pitch party's over,
it's time to get dressed and refresh
and get ready to party for tonight.
Sima is hosting an incredible party
for my new chapter of independence.
[upbeat Arabic music playing]
[Marwan] This house is amazing.
The most beautiful, amazing house
I've ever seen in Dubai.
[Farhana] I asked Mo to join me because
I wanted to introduce him to the group
and catch up with him, you know,
I wanted to show him my world,
this is my world,
like, I wanted him
to come and experience it.
-Hi.
-Hello.
Ya Allah! What is he wearing?
How are you?
-You look very nice.
-Thank you.
You're definitely glammy!
[Farhana] Finally, he said something nice,
and I had some questions to ask him.
So I want to know,
are you over your ex or not?
-It comes and goes.
-Because, you know, honestly,
I like you as a friend
and if I'm going to continue
to talk to you and meet you,
I don't want to have this whole
excess baggage that you have.
When you're moaning
and you're already upset
and emotionally hurt from somewhere else,
everything comes back.
If you're still in love with your ex,
it's not good for us to meet or talk.
I'm getting it fixed. It's under control.
-So you want to continue to see me?
-Sure!
Farhana is cool. She's all right.
She's cool. Her energy is all right.
There are good things about her.
I don't know. You're very cold sometimes.
For me, a man should make me feel good,
you know, compliment me,
give me attention. Lots of attention.
-You do look good.
-I know, but it's not enough.
Anyways, I said what I have to say.
I'm telling you, you look very nice.
-Thank you.
-What other compliments can I give you?
I don't want to, like, shut him down,
just because he's going through
a heartbreak,
and I think it's not fair to do that.
So I thought, okay.
And you and I,
you told them we know each other?
How long have we known each other?
For 15 years.
You came to my kickboxing fights.
-How many times have you gone out?
-About five, six times.
-Yeah.
-Put a ring on it.
[Farhana] No, no. Come on!
-Five, six times already?
-No. I'm getting to know him.
Can I ask you guys 'cause I know you both?
Is there potential?
-Maybe.
-Is there potential?
-Man, there's potential for everything.
-[all laughing]
This guy! This guy!
Farhana and Mo.
It was the first time
that I really was in between both of them.
I could sense from Farhana
that she was interested.
From Mo, he's worried, and I think
he feels a lot of responsibility.
-Hi. Nice to meet you.
-Hi. How's it going?
Finally, you meet Mo.
-I heard so much.
-That's me.
-[Mo] I hope good things.
-Are you treating her well?
-I treat everyone good.
-Okay. Good. That's most important.
-[Mo] I do treat her well.
-[all laughing]
Mo. I thought he was a nice person,
but I'm not sure if they are compatible.
Good evening, everyone.
Thank you so much for coming.
Family, friends
and lots of Mona's well-wishers.
Honestly, it's absolute honor
and privilege to celebrate Mona.
[all cheering]
Oh, my God, I'm nervous.
I don't usually get nervous.
This is my first solo venture,
completely on my own.
I've never done it before.
I used to be very codependent,
and I'm trying to be very independent now
and just follow my dream.
And I just want to say
thank you so much to my dad
[all cheering]
for being someone who I really look up to
and just supported me from day one.
[Ibrahim] Mona. I love her so much.
And I'm looking forward
to be beside her, to help her,
especially in the new office.
Inshallah! She will be very successful.
-[Hassan] I'm proud of you.
-[Mona] Thank you.
HASSAN ELAMIN
And I am sure you're gonna do wonders,
and we're gonna be
your biggest supporters.
-Thank you. I love you.
-[all cheering]
Let's party!
[dramatic music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[Marwan] Hi, Zeina.
[Danya] I invited Zeina to Besties Café.
I want to see
if she's going to come or if she's not.
It's best for me to sit down
and let her feel comfortable
that everything is going to be okay.
I wanted to personally invite you
to the launch of the Besties Café.
It's the venture between you and, uh
-Ebraheem.
-Besties.
I now you and him
still haven't hashed out your differences,
but me and you are,
I think, on good terms.
It's like me putting my hand out to you
and I want you to come,
to be part of it as my guest.
It'll mean a lot to me if you come.
-[Marwan] Not sure?
-The silence.
It's very nice of her
to come and invite me personally.
I'm seeing a totally
different side of her.
And for the first time
I feel that she's calmer.
She has more peace.
Wait. Is Safa going?
I don't know if Safa's going.
We're not on a good page yet,
but the fact that Safa
sat down with Ebraheem
and became friends with him.
He was the one that actually
brought me to your office.
How's it okay for her to get along
with him but have an issue with me?
-But, uh
-In the process, disrespect my husband
-that has nothing to do with this.
-I had nothing to do with it.
As you know, I'm doing the Besties Café.
I've been working really hard on that.
The official launch?
This is like, um location reveal.
The blessings of my friends, my family.
-I'd love for you to be there.
-I'm proud of you.
-Do I have to invite my bestie?
-You have to.
-You don't want to clear the air?
-I don't hold grudges against her.
I don't mind her or her husband.
They're just there.
[Safa] I feel now we're done.
It's time to move on.
He should make peace with Zeina
in order for us to have
some kind of friendship,
because, you know, she's my best friend.
I would love you to talk to her,
and invite her yourself to Besties.
Let Danya invite her. I'll welcome her.
If she's at my place,
it's my job to welcome her.
[upbeat music playing]
Sweetheart. [chuckles]
[Loujain] Today, Lojain and I are with
my mom at the doctor's to support her.
We're starting a fresh start.
We really need to spend
a lot of time together.
Right now I've made it a priority for
my mom to work on improving her health.
It's okay.
[Lojain] I'm happy
their relationship has mended.
Her mother is grateful
that LJ wants to support her.
My next step after we spend time together
is to introduce my mom to my daughters.
-Hi.
-Hi! [chuckles]
-Go on.
-Hello!
Hi, baby.
When I saw them, I felt that it has
a different feeling to be a grandmother.
These are my daughters.
These are my girls.
-You happy that you finally met my mom?
-[Manar] Finally.
-[girls] Yeah.
-Yeah?
How are you, girls?
[girls] Good.
When I saw them together, united,
I really have no words
to explain how I felt.
It was a mix of everything.
Look at that pretty face.
What a cute little face you have!
I really hope I'm never separated
from them again, LJ or the girls.
I never want to leave them.
Girls, do you want to go
have something to eat
while me and my mom talk?
[girl] Yes.
I just want to look at you
and take care of you
like you are still a kid.
I lost you when you were a child.
And I struggled a lot.
A lot, I struggled without you.
But it's not my choice, Lulu.
I still feel this burning in my heart
because I couldn't raise my own daughter.
It'll never go away.
-It was so hard for me.
-Yeah.
[both crying]
I want her to forgive herself.
I forgive her.
No matter what happened,
whoever's fault it is,
I forgive her,
and I want to forget the past.
I don't want to talk about the past.
The good thing which is happening now
is that you're here,
and how we're gonna make
this relationship strong.
Yes.
It's such a good thing
that she actually came.
Now, the second step
is to work on our relationship,
to make it stronger and to start again.
Mom, I want to tell you something.
I met someone.
It's a long distance relationship.
I've been seeing him for a while,
but it's on and off
because he doesn't live here,
he's not based here.
When you guys are going to get married?
-We're not talking about marriage.
-Oh, you're not?
No, no, no, no.
I'm not in a hurry to get married.
It's not a priority in my life.
Marriage is such a big step, no?
I'm happy for you.
I'm happy that you met somebody
that can be by your side.
-Maybe you'll meet him soon.
-Yeah.
-Hopefully.
-[chuckles nervously]
[Loujain] I'm happy that I can share
with my mom what's going on in my life.
So, I really hope that this is
the beginning of something beautiful.
[birds squawking]
[upbeat music playing]
Today is the opening of the Besties Café.
It was just an idea,
and happily, it became a reality.
Super excited. I can't wait to show
our friends and family
what we've been working on.
Shake, shake, shake, shake.
We invited our loved ones.
We were hoping that everybody would come,
but Mona and Lojain Omran,
they both have work.
This is something Al Seef
has never seen before.
[Marwan] Even though initially
I wasn't all for the idea
and I had my own reasons for it,
today I'm here
because they made it happen,
and I'm here as a friend, as a husband,
and to support them in their business
and wish them the best of luck.
-Hello.
-Hello.
[Ebraheem] This is Umm Kulthum.
-Hi, bestie!
-Hello!
-Where do I sit?
-You sit with Bliss.
-[Marwan] Come sit with me.
-Is Bliss my bestie for today?
[Marwan] We're part-time besties today.
Congratulations.
-She's clueless. Congratulations.
-[all laughing]
You were part of this journey.
You were against this, but it's happening.
If I was a push to make this happen,
I'm glad.
You were!
Fortunately they took
my opinion seriously.
They worked hard to prove
that I was wrong about everything,
and to address my concerns.
It's my duty today to be there with them
and to give them support and so on,
regardless of the concerns I had before.
Marwan, we agreed that the responsibility
should be split equally.
-Well, Salem, I
-Yeah?
I have nothing to do with this at all.
Are you sure? I'm going to remind you.
Listen, I'm wearing white today.
Like, I'm in peace with myself today.
That's good.
As long as we're peaceful today.
Although Bliss was initially
not for the Besties Café,
he is one of the first people
that's here supporting us.
He's my partner in life,
and he will always support me.
Today, Fahad and I have decided
to go to the Besties Café.
It's time to move on.
We can be a much better group
if we all are supporting each other.
[Zeina] I decided to go
to the Besties Café for Danya's sake,
knowing that Ebraheem will be there.
His responsibility is to be hospitable.
Personally, I'm definitely going to be
as respectful as I always am.
-Isn't this so cool?
-I love it.
-[Danya] Hi.
-[Safa] Hello. Hi!
[Salem] Everything good?
Best of luck! Sorry, I have lost my voice.
Hi! As-salamu alaykum.
[Fahad] How are you? Good?
How's the new baby?
[Safa] Good. Thank you.
Yeah. She's enjoying.
-How are you?
-Good. Good.
[Danya] There's still some unresolved
issues between me and Safa,
and I've made it clear many times
that I want peace.
I hope we move on.
-Congrats. Congrats.
-Thank you.
Hi. Thank you for coming.
Hey. I didn't know if I should come
because I don't know how you feel,
but khallas, Ramadan is around the corner,
and, you know, like,
you and I, we probably have
more in common than you think.
So, I wanted to talk to you
'cause I don't want you to feel that
anything is influencing me
and how I feel about anything.
I felt not very good.
Even if you wanted to choose
to accept that or not
and that was not a good place
for me at that time.
That's what I wanted to say.
Yeah. I've been there,
like, after having my kids, I know.
[sighs] Talk to Fahad,
he'll tell you all about my hormones.
It's not easy, so I get it.
And I appreciate you coming,
and I appreciate you speaking to me.
Enough! Ramadan is around the corner.
This month is about peace,
forgiveness and love.
Okay?
[both chuckle]
My bestie became besties
at the Bestie Café.
This is good to see you guys together.
I didn't expect her to come
and apologize to me
for what she's done and explain herself.
At the end of the day, she's a mother.
She's going through a hard time.
She has a newborn.
So I was being understanding,
and I accepted her apology.
Guys, thank you so much for coming.
It means the world to me. I appreciate it.
It's so nice of you guys to come.
Hopefully, this year
is going to be a year of peace,
-besties, everyone getting along.
-Talk to him.
I have.
I thought, "Ebraheem,
you have to make sure that you show Zeina
like the utmost respect,
and welcome her because you are the host."
I want to plan for the future.
If you're on board with the future
and whatever we're going to do,
you're most welcome.
And if you're not,
you're also most welcome.
I was opening up for the first time
because I had the chance
to talk to her while she was calm
and I was able to say what was on my mind.
I don't want us to reopen the subject
and go backwards.
Forget what happened and move on.
[Zeina] If we go back in time,
would you have said some of the things
you said about me?
If we go back in time,
I wouldn't have even gone to your office.
So Ebraheem and Zeina are cool now?
-I don't know. It looks like it.
-I can't keep up anymore.
What are they talking about?
I'm not gonna lie.
I wanna know what's going on.
[Danya] Peaceful shake.
The way he was talking was toned down.
Already he's had enough practice.
I mean, after all, this is the third time
he tried to talk to me.
Marwan's a bit He has like
He's upset with you.
-Since we're being
-The peacemaker is upset.
[Danya] He's upset.
[Safa] You're the peacemaker.
You make us feel good.
I don't wanna upset anybody.
Our conversation was really bad
that day at LJ's event,
and I felt like a high school girl again,
and I felt it was disgusting.
I'm sorry if I said anything to you,
and it shouldn't happen.
[Marwan] It's magical!
I never thought I would hear
Safa say, "I'm sorry."
What? [imitates explosion]
I want a hug. I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry if you felt
You're so sweet, Safa.
Let's give people
the benefit of the doubt.
I mean, the fact that she had the courage
and the decency to apologize,
and say sorry,
I'll take it for what it is.
I appreciate you, Safa.
We're all besties at the Besties Café!
Besties Café!
What the hell is happening here?
Let's take a group picture
with a Polaroid.
We're gonna put it on the Besties' mirror.
[all laughing]
[Danya] We'll take pictures
with everyone today.
[birds screeching]
[dramatic music playing]
[Mona] As part of our fragrances
that we're launching this year,
today I have a photoshoot
for a perfume collection
that me and Hassan
have developed together.
[romantic music playing]
It feels so nice to have
a wedding dress on again
with Hassan and have more memories
to share with, hopefully,
our children in the future.
[humming "Wedding March"]
[Hassan] Come here, my bride.
Thank you, my groom.
[both laughing]
I think Mona is the most
beautiful bride in the world.
I'm so excited for our first product
we worked on together.
Yeah.
It's our first baby.
-Speaking of babies, um
-Mm-hmm.
Have you thought about our conversation?
Mm
We've been kind of avoiding having
this conversation since our last talk.
It's time to get on the same page
and make sure we're both aligned.
It's been stressful lately with work.
We're aligned that this year
we plan to have babies.
-Like try?
-Try. Yeah.
The end of the year.
But if we can speed that up a little bit.
-Like?
-In two months from now.
-Two months is like tomorrow, baby.
-Yes.
Oh, my God! Um
I think maybe six months?
I think if we can meet halfway,
and say three to four months from now.
That's perfectly balanced,
right in the middle.
[chuckles softly]
Okay, in four months from now,
we'll start trying.
I'll be sending him a calendar invite.
But he better be romantic.
[upbeat Arabic music playing]
Mona called me after I told her
that I never wore a white dress
for any of my weddings.
I'm excited to wear white
and to feel like a bride.
I appreciate Mona
giving me this opportunity.
That's why I didn't hesitate at all.
[Mona] Oh, my God!
-[Mona screaming]
-[Lojain laughing]
My sweetheart!
Mashallah!
-God bless you. You're beautiful!
-Beautiful, my bride!
-We are brides today.
-Double brides.
LO is just such a beautiful person.
She's gorgeous inside out,
and she looks like a queen.
And I'm so happy to see her
in this beautiful white dress.
I can't tell you how happy it makes me
to see you wearing this.
That's why I give this advice
to all my friends.
If you're getting married,
never compromise on the dress.
-It's a must.
-Yeah. Right.
I regret not wearing
a white dress the first time,
and that's why I felt too embarrassed
to wear one afterwards.
Just wear it and don't worry
about what others will say,
because people are going to talk anyway.
So do what makes you happy.
And by the way,
since Ramadan starts tomorrow,
to celebrate the first week,
I'm going to host an annual Suhoor,
like I do every year.
I would like to invite you and Hassan.
My Suhoor is your Suhoor.
-I'm definitely coming.
-God willing.
I'm excited for Suhoor, that's for sure.
-God willing. Sweetheart.
-You are amazing.
We're at the start of the best month
of the whole year,
the blessed month of Ramadan.
The blessed month of Ramadan
is very important to us,
religiously and spiritually.
It's the month of forgiveness and mercy.
As per my usual tradition,
I'm hosting a Suhoor.
I'm inviting everybody.
[slow Arabic music playing]
Tonight, we're going to LO's Suhoor.
And I'm super excited to see everybody
and just to have
a beautiful beginning to Ramadan.
[Farhana] I don't know the future
for Mo and I.
If things happen, it happens.
If not, we'll always remain friends.
LO invited us for Suhoor.
So I decided to bring my mother
because my wife is in Abu Dhabi.
-So nice.
-It's beautiful.
[Mona] Happy Ramadan.
Thank you. Hi, guys.
Today I'm going to a Suhoor with my mom.
Finally, my friends are going to meet her.
-[Loujain] Hello, everyone.
-Hi!
I want you to meet my mom.
[all cheering]
This is my mom.
I know you guys
have been waiting to meet her.
When I walked in with my mom,
everybody was shocked.
But their reaction was really so amazing.
So nice to meet you, Aunty.
Me too!
Now I can see
where LJ gets her beauty from.
Oh, thank you. No!
They were kinda shocked.
They didn't believe it.
It was very welcoming.
Allow me to give you all my best wishes
for this holy month.
May God bring you and all your loved ones
health, prosperity and blessings.
Next, let me congratulate you and Danya.
Thank you so much.
-I also heard some wonderful news.
-Thank you.
Everybody has made up, right?
-Yes, yes, yes.
-Yeah.
We all make mistakes,
but we must take them back and apologize.
[glass clinking]
We wanted to share
our baby news with everyone.
Should we tell them?
-Oh, I think I know.
-Tell them.
-I'm pregnant.
-[all cheering]
It's like surprise
after surprise, after surprise.
And I could not be any more proud
of my beautiful wife
and the journey
that she's been on for the last year
because it wasn't easy at all.
So we can talk about push present later?
Oh, don't even start!
Don't even start.
[Arabic music playing]
[Kris] Bravo!
[all applauding]
Come with me.
I hate when Fahad and I argue.
He is the most important person to me.
I need to take him to the side
and make things right.
I don't want to keep fighting with you
about the same stuff.
I want you to understand me a bit better.
-What are we talking about?
-I want to do surgery.
I spoke to some friends of mine,
and I found out there is a risk involved.
-That's why I'm just like freaking out
-Can we research it?
I did. I've made phone calls.
I've found out.
Nothing is without risk here, Safa.
I don't own her or control her to tell her
what she should or shouldn't do.
But because I love her,
obviously, I don't want to risk even that
1% chance of anything going wrong.
These things are very serious.
Anything goes wrong, anything happens,
how am I supposed to raise
two daughters by myself?
If something happened to me and I died,
I would turn into a ghost
and I would not let you
think about getting remarried,
if this is your threat to me, okay?
Okay. [sighs]
I'm not completely shutting the door,
I'm just saying, don't force me into it
and say everything has to be done now.
I'm never doing anything
without your permission.
So let's just agree that
Let's take our time. Let's take our time.
I feel Fahad is a rational person.
He's a logical person.
He needs his research
in order to make any type of decision,
and that's the way he functions.
There's something else
I wanted to tell you.
What else?
I'm willing to come to India.
Oh, really?
I'm going to come with the girls
whenever you go,
whenever you need us.
I can't imagine my life
without you within it.
I hate it when you leave,
so I'm going to be on your head.
Thank you.
Safa, I think she wants
to do the shuttle now.
She wants the kids
to be around the father,
and she knows how much I love the kids.
It's a good start.
I'm willing to go to India back and forth,
up and down with two little girls
because I love him
and my family comes first.
[upbeat Arabic music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[violin music playing]
Wait, is that Hasnain?
-[Marwan] No way!
-[Kris] Oh!
Who is this gentleman? Who's this?
Hasnain comes in a very serious way.
Walking straight into the Suhoor,
and then he grabs my hand.
[Kris] That's her man.
Suddenly, I don't know, out of nowhere,
something is happening.
What a surprise!
I planned to surprise Loujain.
She was looking so beautiful.
It's like ooh!
I used to hear a lot of things,
unconditional love.
And today I'm experiencing it,
"unconditional love."
I never thought that your happiness
would become my happiness.
Felt very emotional, what he said to me,
but then I was like,
"Why is this happening now?"
[voice breaking]
Every morning I want to wake up,
I want to see you in my life.
I never thought
someone can be so important in life.
I never thought
that I can feel your heartbeat
and I wanna become a father,
I want to become a husband.
Forever I want to take
this responsibility and shine.
And keep you happy.
And I want to be your rock.
And I love you.
It's a big step for me.
It's a big, big step.
I never thought
I'm going to take this step.
And Loujain
-Will you marry me?
-[all cheering]
[Kris] Say, "Yes."
[suspenseful music playing]
[dramatic music playing]
-Oh, my God!
-[Manar] Sultana.
Finally, I can't believe it.
After a whole year. I cannot believe it.
Hi.
Sweetheart.
Finally, I get to see your face.
After a whole year,
LJ's mother and I get to meet.
My dear, welcome to Dubai.
When Lojain Omran opened the door,
I gave her a huge hug.
We barely know each other, but I love her.
-How are you, darling?
-I'm good. How was your trip?
-Thank God it was okay.
-For a whole year, I've been on edge.
You were coming. You weren't.
For a whole year,
I've been trying to get her
to come from America all the way to Dubai.
And finally, I get to see her face.
[Manar] I couldn't wait anymore.
And in my heart,
my heart wanted to be here honestly.
[sighs] So, but I made it.
I made it finally!
I thank God that after all these years
I'm finally in Dubai.
I don't know if I'll be able
to see my daughter.
I came here for her after all.
It's been hard for LJ.
She needs her mother.
There was a very hard situation.
I didn't do it because I planned to do
-Yeah, I know.
-to leave my daughter.
When I look back, I'm like
I never, ever imagined
to be separated from my kids.
-How old were they when you left?
-I didn't leave them.
They took them away from me.
I was 16 when I got married,
so I wasn't mature enough to be married.
I was pregnant with LJ when my husband
decided to move us to America,
and this is where the problem starts.
So, I was so naive.
I want to leave the marriage,
but I don't want to leave the kids.
I'm not saying that I'm an angel.
It's not like I came from heaven
and I'm a perfect person.
No, I'm not perfect.
But at the same time, I was young.
Yeah.
At a certain point, when she was talking,
I felt like she was talking about me.
As if she was describing me.
We both got divorced
and had our children taken away from us.
Every word you're saying is something
that I've experienced myself.
No one can understand
what you've been through like I do.
All you need is to listen to one another.
So if I can play a part in reconciling
a mother and her children, why not?
Life is way too short.
Obviously, she doesn't know that
I've invited LJ to come over to my house.
But when LJ asked me,
"Is it a special occasion?"
I said, "My parents are here,
and I'd like you to meet them."
I can't imagine what it'll be like
when they see each other.
DUBAI BLING
[dramatic music playing]
[doorbell rings]
The doorbell rang
and my heart jumped to open the door.
I was excited.
-[Loujain] Hello.
-[Lojain] Hi.
-[Lojain] Hi! Hug, because I miss you.
-How are you? I miss you!
At that point my heart was racing.
She had no idea.
Okay, we have something to celebrate.
Huh? Oh, my God!
-Really?
-[Lojain chuckles]
Oh, my God!
You're here?
I don't know what to say.
How are you?
Oh, my God!
I was shocked.
She was the last person I expected to see.
It was, it was
I can't even explain the feeling.
[Manar] I couldn't believe that I was
actually hugging my daughter. I feel her.
I feel her. I feel her body close to me.
-You're so pretty.
-Oh, no, you are.
-Now you know who you take after.
-[laughs]
You're so beautiful!
I was happy because
I felt that I achieved something.
I was able to do
what no one was able to do for me.
Last year,
same time like today I was saying,
"I hope next year we can be together."
And I told you we will. Remember?
Yeah. [sniffles]
My baby.
[Loujain] Last year, for Mother's Day,
I asked my mom to come.
I sent her a message,
and now my mom is here
next to me.
-Come here with us.
-[all chuckling]
This hug is really what I needed.
I really wanted to be in her arms.
I really wanted to feel her and see her.
Like, wow, like this is really my mom.
It was so beautiful to see her.
I'm happy you came. That's what matters.
That you're actually here now
and that we can
[inhales deeply] start again.
I want to relive my childhood with you.
Can you do breakfast for me?
I have no problem.
-I want you to help with my kids.
-Whatever you want.
I can't wait to seen them.
As long as she accept me in her life.
Of course I accept you, Mommy.
-Oh, really, baby?
-Yeah.
This is my dream. My dream come true.
I want to make up for all these years.
I'm ready.
I'm ready from a long time ago,
long time ago.
I can't stop looking at you.
I just want to look at you
after all these years of not seeing you.
I did not I never, ever forget.
Not even one day
I want to be away from you.
[cries] I'm sorry.
[pensive music playing]
[upbeat music playing]
[Arabic hip-hop music playing]
[Ebraheem] Danya and I
are getting ready to open
our new business, the Besties Café.
We have a lot of work to do,
so no time to waste.
The most important thing is the location.
So finally, I got the keys
for one of the important locations
that we're going to be choosing.
-Dubai is so beautiful.
-[Danya] Wow!
-Mashallah.
-Look at this beautiful location.
-Is this the one?
-This is the one. Yep.
The positive part of this one
is that you have a corner unit
and it's on the main walkway,
and that's the drop off
where all the tourist buses comes.
-[Danya] Amazing!
-Yeah.
Whenever I enter a new business,
so it works,
I say, "Bismillah"
and enter with right foot.
Bismillah.
Ta-da!
Oh, wow! So pretty.
-I really like it.
-Oh, my God! The dust.
People are passing by and they want
to come in. It's not even open.
-Hello, customers.
-Hi!
Come in. We're going to be open soon.
It's the Besties Café!
-I actually love this location.
-But listen
A lot of people
didn't believe in us working together.
DANYA MOHAMMED
So we need to work extra hard
to prove everyone wrong.
I'm thinking for our launch,
to invite Zeina.
Zeina's my girl now.
I mean, come on.
Be serious.
No, I'm serious.
You've been fighting all year,
and now "my girl"?
This is our vibe this year.
We're trying to be better people.
Danya has struggled.
She wants some peace of mind.
I don't blame her for wanting peace.
If she wants to call Zeina,
I don't mind. On the contrary.
But for me, no.
You invite Safa, I'll invite Zeina,
let's see if they show up.
It'll be nice to have everyone together,
even though we don't get along.
But don't you feel like
they'll give us the evil eye?
-Yeah, but
-They're jealous people.
We're cool. Me and her are cool now.
Be cool with her.
But when the snake sheds its skin,
it only sheds to become a bigger snake.
-Oof!
-Just be careful.
[crow caws]
[soothing music playing]
I wake up every morning
feeling so grateful for my little girls.
I'm so happy they have each other
and I have them.
I've never been happier.
How much do you love Ayana?
-Hundred thousand.
-Hundred thousand?
Zeina's coming over to pop by.
I don't even know if you can handle it ♪
All I know is you can have it ♪
-This is a chai karak for you, Mum.
-Chai karak for me?
And this is some hot cocoa
for Aunty Zeina.
-Aunty Zeina's gonna have hot cocoa?
-Yeah.
-Hello.
-Hi, babe. [kisses]
ZEINA KHOURY
-How are you?
-[Alina] Welcome, Aunty Zeina.
[with sore throat] Hello! How are you?
Did you see my voice?
-What happened to your voice?
-I don't know. It's been coming and going.
-Babe, it's crazy.
-The evil eye.
This is the evil eye?
Can you go get ginger for Aunty Zeina?
By the way, where's Fahad?
I don't know. I would check,
but I don't have the app anymore.
I have decided to delete
that tracking app.
I don't want to obsess anymore.
I mean, like, I can't let Fahad think
I'm so obsessed over him.
He should be the one obsessing over me,
not the other way around.
I have to keep calling him.
This more psychotic.
How am I supposed to know
where my husband is now?
I have to be like a normal person
and call him.
I'm not calling him.
Babe, what are we going to do with Fahad
to let me do my surgery?
He's just against anything
that he feels is not natural.
He thinks I'm going to look different.
I needed Zeina and I to brainstorm
how to get Fahad to agree
to my mummy makeover.
I can't believe
he's agreed to see the doctor.
-Is he going?
-Yeah.
-Okay.
-You're coming with us.
I'm worried.
I'm worried that he might say no,
and I'm just exhausted.
What do you want to do? Tighten the skin?
Yeah, but he's paranoid.
Just say that it's a revision
for your C-section scar.
-Have them tighten that bit of skin.
-Can I say this?
Well, yeah.
What they don't know doesn't hurt them.
It's totally up to her
if she wants to lie. I'm just suggesting.
She decides what to tell her husband.
-[Safa exclaims]
-What's this?
[Safa clears throat] What's that?
"Grab your bestie and join us in revealing
the location of the Besties Café."
-Oh, you got an invitation?
-Mm.
You know this number?
It's Danya.
[Zeina] I didn't expect this message.
It's a sign that she's genuine
and she really wants to work
on making things better.
Ebraheem invited me.
I'm not sure what I'm gonna do about it.
So will you reply to the invitation?
Look, if it were only Danya's event,
maybe I would consider it.
But the two of them together,
I mean, it's a bit weird.
What happened with Ebraheem
wasn't very nice.
But the apology of Danya
caught me off guard.
Let's see if I should go
to the Besties Café opening,
or I shouldn't.
[dramatic music playing]
Brianna and I are having a baby together,
and we cannot wait to tell Mum and Dad.
So I brought them today to knock down
the official first wall
of our brand new home.
But, they had zero idea
what we really had planned.
We had this idea where we were gonna
create a message on one of the walls
we were gonna break down
with a sledgehammer.
It'll say, "We're having a baby."
To new beginnings right now.
Let me start breaking this baby down.
I've never done this before.
Here we go.
-[all exclaiming]
-Oh, okay.
My heart is pumping. Like, I'm nervous.
Amazing!
Allah! [screams]
Oh, no! You are?
-Oh, no!
-Tell me you're lying.
-Oh, my God!
-Tell me you're lying.
[Kris and Brianna] We're having a baby!
-[Noushie] What!
-[Kris] Where you looking, Dad?
-Oh, my God!
-Where are you?
Oh, my goodness!
-No way!
-You okay?
You okay?
[cries] Oh, no!
Oh, my God!
I cannot be blessed
and happier as a mother.
GILDA FAHD
-Oh, no! Oh, my God, darling.
-[Kris] That's so good, no?
-Oh, my God!
-I love you.
-[Kris] I love you. I love you. Come here.
-[Noushie] What?
So happy.
All we want for our children
is health and happiness.
The biggest surprise he's ever given us.
[sighs]
One, two.
One more.
I'm a blessed man.
I've got a new baby coming.
And the amount of love and positive energy
that I'm going to receive
when this baby comes
is going to be incredible.
Good times are on the way.
Let's go out ♪
And be the finest vibe all night
The streets keep talkin' about ♪
I want my mommy makeover, but Fahad
is not interested in me doing surgery.
So after trying many times,
I got Fahad to agree to see the doctor,
which was one step.
-Hi.
-Hi, Madam Safa.
-How are you?
-I'm good.
I have an appointment with Dr. Kotti.
Today, Zeina's coming with me
to my doctor,
and to get Fahad to agree
to my mummy makeover.
So, Doctor, now I want to have surgery.
You see, I already have two kids.
But you know what happens.
Safa starts speaking in Arabic
and I have no clue. What shit is this?
Right now, my husband
is not on board with this.
I'm dying to have this surgery.
Even after having my first child,
I wanted it.
So I brought him here to convince him.
Fahad speaks Hindi with his friends
all the time, and I don't mind.
Now it's my turn. I wanna talk about you.
If you have a problem with this,
go learn some Arabic, baby.
Maybe you can explain to him
what a mummy makeover is.
So the whole idea is like
to work on different parts of the body
in order to give back
-The same body I had.
-The same body.
It's not that I'm changing my body.
I want something super natural.
I'm not going in
trying to come out like another person.
I am going in
to enter the best version of myself.
[Dr. Kotti] It's really life-changing.
That's why we accept to do it,
as surgeons.
I think she's fine the way she is.
I don't believe in these cosmetic things.
There's a lot of risk involved.
But when you love somebody so much,
you don't want them to do something
invasive, which has risk involved.
Okay. Let's do the exam.
I'm going to call my nurse.
It's something small
that will really help.
It's not like drawing blood out.
If it was just
as simple as drawing blood out,
-do it now. It's not.
-Yes, but maybe
[Dr. Kotti] Oh, this is your job.
[chuckles]
Inshallah, let's say
we have another child,
we have to go through this process again?
What do you mean?
We agreed this was our last child.
You've yourself decided
on the family now? Come on.
Fahad thinks I am a baby-making machine.
I'll have ten kids and he'll say,
"Yeah, have more."
There's no stopping to that man.
He wants a football team.
Does he seriously think
that I'm going to have more kids?
What is he thinking?
Tackle your problems one at a time.
Just tell him, "Okay."
He's just being stubborn.
He's being stubborn with me, isn't he?
I just have to agree
to something that concerns me,
and he won't even listen to me.
Oh, my God. He's so stubborn, babe, eh?
Well, I told you.
I want a decision.
I'm sorry. You want an answer now?
-Yes.
-This very minute?
Yes.
All right, Doctor.
-Pleasure meeting you.
-Pleasure.
-Where you going?
-I'll wait outside.
Take care.
I don't like to be cornered.
Safa said you have to tell me
now, now, now.
Give me some time.
Let me just process this information
that I've just received.
[upbeat music playing]
Today I'm hosting a pitch party
MONA KATTAN
with my very good friend
and mentor, Sima Ved,
founder and chairwoman of Apparel Group,
one of the largest companies
in the Middle East and Asia.
I am an Indian girl who grew up in Dubai,
got married, started my own business.
I sold the gold that I got in my wedding
SIMA VED
that was my capital.
We built and built and built and built,
and today we are
a multi-billion dollar operation.
Mona and I have absolute clarity
that we want to be known
in this world for having helped women.
[upbeat music playing]
We've invited our co-judge,
Tara Lalvani, to the pitch party.
TARA LALVANI
She is an incredible businesswoman.
The purpose of this pitch party
is really to help
many different women
to pitch their business.
It feels like just yesterday
I was in their shoes,
having a dream, having a vision
of something that I wanted to create,
and not having the resources
to actually make them happen.
We've invited all of my friends here today
to come and share their stories
with our contestants.
Sometimes it's that one sentence
somebody says to you
that can change your life forever.
Every day's a mountain
That we try to climb ♪
I think this initiative is so inspiring
because when you become successful,
it's often hard to remember the others.
It just shows how kindhearted they are.
Hey, Diva Dee.
-Hi.
-HI.
-How are you? Hi.
-You look so cool.
[Danya] This is actually
the first time I've seen Zeina
after Lojain Omran's fashion show.
That feeling of resolution feels amazing.
There's still one more issue,
which is me and Safa.
It's actually sad
because I didn't ever do anything
personally to Safa
for her to hate me so much.
Danya was avoiding to me.
For me, I'm going to continue
to be nice to everybody.
I just want to like move on.
Like, I don't want to
continue this anymore.
[upbeat music playing]
It's such an important day
for all of us being here.
My fellow judges, we have a lot of
very eager contestants here today
and some beautiful stories as well.
I was once in the front row
where I was waiting to pitch for an idea
and I managed to raise funds.
I had one goal. I want to make it big.
I don't know how
FARHANA BODI
but I'm gonna be famous.
Me being a mother,
people were looking at me like,
"Why are you doing business?
You need to focus on your kids."
It doesn't mean that it stops you
from trying to follow your dreams.
The only thing that kept me going,
that I knew that I had that nobody
could take away, was the passion.
I feel that financial independence
gave me the strength to be who I am
in this marriage and as a mother,
because I have power.
Now it's time for our contestants
to pitch their business.
We send you a box of clothes
based on your preferences
that we think you'll like.
You keep the items you want
and send the others back.
Hoopla is a mental wellness app
for children and parents.
I'm more into
personalizing facial treatment
than I am using Korean techniques
and products, which is organic.
The Pupilar is reinventing.
We connect the youth with the industries
through role-based challenges.
We've heard all of the pitches.
Now it's time to reveal the winner.
[suspenseful music playing]
Hoopla, congratulations,
with the grand prize.
[all cheering]
So now that the pitch party's over,
it's time to get dressed and refresh
and get ready to party for tonight.
Sima is hosting an incredible party
for my new chapter of independence.
[upbeat Arabic music playing]
[Marwan] This house is amazing.
The most beautiful, amazing house
I've ever seen in Dubai.
[Farhana] I asked Mo to join me because
I wanted to introduce him to the group
and catch up with him, you know,
I wanted to show him my world,
this is my world,
like, I wanted him
to come and experience it.
-Hi.
-Hello.
Ya Allah! What is he wearing?
How are you?
-You look very nice.
-Thank you.
You're definitely glammy!
[Farhana] Finally, he said something nice,
and I had some questions to ask him.
So I want to know,
are you over your ex or not?
-It comes and goes.
-Because, you know, honestly,
I like you as a friend
and if I'm going to continue
to talk to you and meet you,
I don't want to have this whole
excess baggage that you have.
When you're moaning
and you're already upset
and emotionally hurt from somewhere else,
everything comes back.
If you're still in love with your ex,
it's not good for us to meet or talk.
I'm getting it fixed. It's under control.
-So you want to continue to see me?
-Sure!
Farhana is cool. She's all right.
She's cool. Her energy is all right.
There are good things about her.
I don't know. You're very cold sometimes.
For me, a man should make me feel good,
you know, compliment me,
give me attention. Lots of attention.
-You do look good.
-I know, but it's not enough.
Anyways, I said what I have to say.
I'm telling you, you look very nice.
-Thank you.
-What other compliments can I give you?
I don't want to, like, shut him down,
just because he's going through
a heartbreak,
and I think it's not fair to do that.
So I thought, okay.
And you and I,
you told them we know each other?
How long have we known each other?
For 15 years.
You came to my kickboxing fights.
-How many times have you gone out?
-About five, six times.
-Yeah.
-Put a ring on it.
[Farhana] No, no. Come on!
-Five, six times already?
-No. I'm getting to know him.
Can I ask you guys 'cause I know you both?
Is there potential?
-Maybe.
-Is there potential?
-Man, there's potential for everything.
-[all laughing]
This guy! This guy!
Farhana and Mo.
It was the first time
that I really was in between both of them.
I could sense from Farhana
that she was interested.
From Mo, he's worried, and I think
he feels a lot of responsibility.
-Hi. Nice to meet you.
-Hi. How's it going?
Finally, you meet Mo.
-I heard so much.
-That's me.
-[Mo] I hope good things.
-Are you treating her well?
-I treat everyone good.
-Okay. Good. That's most important.
-[Mo] I do treat her well.
-[all laughing]
Mo. I thought he was a nice person,
but I'm not sure if they are compatible.
Good evening, everyone.
Thank you so much for coming.
Family, friends
and lots of Mona's well-wishers.
Honestly, it's absolute honor
and privilege to celebrate Mona.
[all cheering]
Oh, my God, I'm nervous.
I don't usually get nervous.
This is my first solo venture,
completely on my own.
I've never done it before.
I used to be very codependent,
and I'm trying to be very independent now
and just follow my dream.
And I just want to say
thank you so much to my dad
[all cheering]
for being someone who I really look up to
and just supported me from day one.
[Ibrahim] Mona. I love her so much.
And I'm looking forward
to be beside her, to help her,
especially in the new office.
Inshallah! She will be very successful.
-[Hassan] I'm proud of you.
-[Mona] Thank you.
HASSAN ELAMIN
And I am sure you're gonna do wonders,
and we're gonna be
your biggest supporters.
-Thank you. I love you.
-[all cheering]
Let's party!
[dramatic music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[Marwan] Hi, Zeina.
[Danya] I invited Zeina to Besties Café.
I want to see
if she's going to come or if she's not.
It's best for me to sit down
and let her feel comfortable
that everything is going to be okay.
I wanted to personally invite you
to the launch of the Besties Café.
It's the venture between you and, uh
-Ebraheem.
-Besties.
I now you and him
still haven't hashed out your differences,
but me and you are,
I think, on good terms.
It's like me putting my hand out to you
and I want you to come,
to be part of it as my guest.
It'll mean a lot to me if you come.
-[Marwan] Not sure?
-The silence.
It's very nice of her
to come and invite me personally.
I'm seeing a totally
different side of her.
And for the first time
I feel that she's calmer.
She has more peace.
Wait. Is Safa going?
I don't know if Safa's going.
We're not on a good page yet,
but the fact that Safa
sat down with Ebraheem
and became friends with him.
He was the one that actually
brought me to your office.
How's it okay for her to get along
with him but have an issue with me?
-But, uh
-In the process, disrespect my husband
-that has nothing to do with this.
-I had nothing to do with it.
As you know, I'm doing the Besties Café.
I've been working really hard on that.
The official launch?
This is like, um location reveal.
The blessings of my friends, my family.
-I'd love for you to be there.
-I'm proud of you.
-Do I have to invite my bestie?
-You have to.
-You don't want to clear the air?
-I don't hold grudges against her.
I don't mind her or her husband.
They're just there.
[Safa] I feel now we're done.
It's time to move on.
He should make peace with Zeina
in order for us to have
some kind of friendship,
because, you know, she's my best friend.
I would love you to talk to her,
and invite her yourself to Besties.
Let Danya invite her. I'll welcome her.
If she's at my place,
it's my job to welcome her.
[upbeat music playing]
Sweetheart. [chuckles]
[Loujain] Today, Lojain and I are with
my mom at the doctor's to support her.
We're starting a fresh start.
We really need to spend
a lot of time together.
Right now I've made it a priority for
my mom to work on improving her health.
It's okay.
[Lojain] I'm happy
their relationship has mended.
Her mother is grateful
that LJ wants to support her.
My next step after we spend time together
is to introduce my mom to my daughters.
-Hi.
-Hi! [chuckles]
-Go on.
-Hello!
Hi, baby.
When I saw them, I felt that it has
a different feeling to be a grandmother.
These are my daughters.
These are my girls.
-You happy that you finally met my mom?
-[Manar] Finally.
-[girls] Yeah.
-Yeah?
How are you, girls?
[girls] Good.
When I saw them together, united,
I really have no words
to explain how I felt.
It was a mix of everything.
Look at that pretty face.
What a cute little face you have!
I really hope I'm never separated
from them again, LJ or the girls.
I never want to leave them.
Girls, do you want to go
have something to eat
while me and my mom talk?
[girl] Yes.
I just want to look at you
and take care of you
like you are still a kid.
I lost you when you were a child.
And I struggled a lot.
A lot, I struggled without you.
But it's not my choice, Lulu.
I still feel this burning in my heart
because I couldn't raise my own daughter.
It'll never go away.
-It was so hard for me.
-Yeah.
[both crying]
I want her to forgive herself.
I forgive her.
No matter what happened,
whoever's fault it is,
I forgive her,
and I want to forget the past.
I don't want to talk about the past.
The good thing which is happening now
is that you're here,
and how we're gonna make
this relationship strong.
Yes.
It's such a good thing
that she actually came.
Now, the second step
is to work on our relationship,
to make it stronger and to start again.
Mom, I want to tell you something.
I met someone.
It's a long distance relationship.
I've been seeing him for a while,
but it's on and off
because he doesn't live here,
he's not based here.
When you guys are going to get married?
-We're not talking about marriage.
-Oh, you're not?
No, no, no, no.
I'm not in a hurry to get married.
It's not a priority in my life.
Marriage is such a big step, no?
I'm happy for you.
I'm happy that you met somebody
that can be by your side.
-Maybe you'll meet him soon.
-Yeah.
-Hopefully.
-[chuckles nervously]
[Loujain] I'm happy that I can share
with my mom what's going on in my life.
So, I really hope that this is
the beginning of something beautiful.
[birds squawking]
[upbeat music playing]
Today is the opening of the Besties Café.
It was just an idea,
and happily, it became a reality.
Super excited. I can't wait to show
our friends and family
what we've been working on.
Shake, shake, shake, shake.
We invited our loved ones.
We were hoping that everybody would come,
but Mona and Lojain Omran,
they both have work.
This is something Al Seef
has never seen before.
[Marwan] Even though initially
I wasn't all for the idea
and I had my own reasons for it,
today I'm here
because they made it happen,
and I'm here as a friend, as a husband,
and to support them in their business
and wish them the best of luck.
-Hello.
-Hello.
[Ebraheem] This is Umm Kulthum.
-Hi, bestie!
-Hello!
-Where do I sit?
-You sit with Bliss.
-[Marwan] Come sit with me.
-Is Bliss my bestie for today?
[Marwan] We're part-time besties today.
Congratulations.
-She's clueless. Congratulations.
-[all laughing]
You were part of this journey.
You were against this, but it's happening.
If I was a push to make this happen,
I'm glad.
You were!
Fortunately they took
my opinion seriously.
They worked hard to prove
that I was wrong about everything,
and to address my concerns.
It's my duty today to be there with them
and to give them support and so on,
regardless of the concerns I had before.
Marwan, we agreed that the responsibility
should be split equally.
-Well, Salem, I
-Yeah?
I have nothing to do with this at all.
Are you sure? I'm going to remind you.
Listen, I'm wearing white today.
Like, I'm in peace with myself today.
That's good.
As long as we're peaceful today.
Although Bliss was initially
not for the Besties Café,
he is one of the first people
that's here supporting us.
He's my partner in life,
and he will always support me.
Today, Fahad and I have decided
to go to the Besties Café.
It's time to move on.
We can be a much better group
if we all are supporting each other.
[Zeina] I decided to go
to the Besties Café for Danya's sake,
knowing that Ebraheem will be there.
His responsibility is to be hospitable.
Personally, I'm definitely going to be
as respectful as I always am.
-Isn't this so cool?
-I love it.
-[Danya] Hi.
-[Safa] Hello. Hi!
[Salem] Everything good?
Best of luck! Sorry, I have lost my voice.
Hi! As-salamu alaykum.
[Fahad] How are you? Good?
How's the new baby?
[Safa] Good. Thank you.
Yeah. She's enjoying.
-How are you?
-Good. Good.
[Danya] There's still some unresolved
issues between me and Safa,
and I've made it clear many times
that I want peace.
I hope we move on.
-Congrats. Congrats.
-Thank you.
Hi. Thank you for coming.
Hey. I didn't know if I should come
because I don't know how you feel,
but khallas, Ramadan is around the corner,
and, you know, like,
you and I, we probably have
more in common than you think.
So, I wanted to talk to you
'cause I don't want you to feel that
anything is influencing me
and how I feel about anything.
I felt not very good.
Even if you wanted to choose
to accept that or not
and that was not a good place
for me at that time.
That's what I wanted to say.
Yeah. I've been there,
like, after having my kids, I know.
[sighs] Talk to Fahad,
he'll tell you all about my hormones.
It's not easy, so I get it.
And I appreciate you coming,
and I appreciate you speaking to me.
Enough! Ramadan is around the corner.
This month is about peace,
forgiveness and love.
Okay?
[both chuckle]
My bestie became besties
at the Bestie Café.
This is good to see you guys together.
I didn't expect her to come
and apologize to me
for what she's done and explain herself.
At the end of the day, she's a mother.
She's going through a hard time.
She has a newborn.
So I was being understanding,
and I accepted her apology.
Guys, thank you so much for coming.
It means the world to me. I appreciate it.
It's so nice of you guys to come.
Hopefully, this year
is going to be a year of peace,
-besties, everyone getting along.
-Talk to him.
I have.
I thought, "Ebraheem,
you have to make sure that you show Zeina
like the utmost respect,
and welcome her because you are the host."
I want to plan for the future.
If you're on board with the future
and whatever we're going to do,
you're most welcome.
And if you're not,
you're also most welcome.
I was opening up for the first time
because I had the chance
to talk to her while she was calm
and I was able to say what was on my mind.
I don't want us to reopen the subject
and go backwards.
Forget what happened and move on.
[Zeina] If we go back in time,
would you have said some of the things
you said about me?
If we go back in time,
I wouldn't have even gone to your office.
So Ebraheem and Zeina are cool now?
-I don't know. It looks like it.
-I can't keep up anymore.
What are they talking about?
I'm not gonna lie.
I wanna know what's going on.
[Danya] Peaceful shake.
The way he was talking was toned down.
Already he's had enough practice.
I mean, after all, this is the third time
he tried to talk to me.
Marwan's a bit He has like
He's upset with you.
-Since we're being
-The peacemaker is upset.
[Danya] He's upset.
[Safa] You're the peacemaker.
You make us feel good.
I don't wanna upset anybody.
Our conversation was really bad
that day at LJ's event,
and I felt like a high school girl again,
and I felt it was disgusting.
I'm sorry if I said anything to you,
and it shouldn't happen.
[Marwan] It's magical!
I never thought I would hear
Safa say, "I'm sorry."
What? [imitates explosion]
I want a hug. I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry if you felt
You're so sweet, Safa.
Let's give people
the benefit of the doubt.
I mean, the fact that she had the courage
and the decency to apologize,
and say sorry,
I'll take it for what it is.
I appreciate you, Safa.
We're all besties at the Besties Café!
Besties Café!
What the hell is happening here?
Let's take a group picture
with a Polaroid.
We're gonna put it on the Besties' mirror.
[all laughing]
[Danya] We'll take pictures
with everyone today.
[birds screeching]
[dramatic music playing]
[Mona] As part of our fragrances
that we're launching this year,
today I have a photoshoot
for a perfume collection
that me and Hassan
have developed together.
[romantic music playing]
It feels so nice to have
a wedding dress on again
with Hassan and have more memories
to share with, hopefully,
our children in the future.
[humming "Wedding March"]
[Hassan] Come here, my bride.
Thank you, my groom.
[both laughing]
I think Mona is the most
beautiful bride in the world.
I'm so excited for our first product
we worked on together.
Yeah.
It's our first baby.
-Speaking of babies, um
-Mm-hmm.
Have you thought about our conversation?
Mm
We've been kind of avoiding having
this conversation since our last talk.
It's time to get on the same page
and make sure we're both aligned.
It's been stressful lately with work.
We're aligned that this year
we plan to have babies.
-Like try?
-Try. Yeah.
The end of the year.
But if we can speed that up a little bit.
-Like?
-In two months from now.
-Two months is like tomorrow, baby.
-Yes.
Oh, my God! Um
I think maybe six months?
I think if we can meet halfway,
and say three to four months from now.
That's perfectly balanced,
right in the middle.
[chuckles softly]
Okay, in four months from now,
we'll start trying.
I'll be sending him a calendar invite.
But he better be romantic.
[upbeat Arabic music playing]
Mona called me after I told her
that I never wore a white dress
for any of my weddings.
I'm excited to wear white
and to feel like a bride.
I appreciate Mona
giving me this opportunity.
That's why I didn't hesitate at all.
[Mona] Oh, my God!
-[Mona screaming]
-[Lojain laughing]
My sweetheart!
Mashallah!
-God bless you. You're beautiful!
-Beautiful, my bride!
-We are brides today.
-Double brides.
LO is just such a beautiful person.
She's gorgeous inside out,
and she looks like a queen.
And I'm so happy to see her
in this beautiful white dress.
I can't tell you how happy it makes me
to see you wearing this.
That's why I give this advice
to all my friends.
If you're getting married,
never compromise on the dress.
-It's a must.
-Yeah. Right.
I regret not wearing
a white dress the first time,
and that's why I felt too embarrassed
to wear one afterwards.
Just wear it and don't worry
about what others will say,
because people are going to talk anyway.
So do what makes you happy.
And by the way,
since Ramadan starts tomorrow,
to celebrate the first week,
I'm going to host an annual Suhoor,
like I do every year.
I would like to invite you and Hassan.
My Suhoor is your Suhoor.
-I'm definitely coming.
-God willing.
I'm excited for Suhoor, that's for sure.
-God willing. Sweetheart.
-You are amazing.
We're at the start of the best month
of the whole year,
the blessed month of Ramadan.
The blessed month of Ramadan
is very important to us,
religiously and spiritually.
It's the month of forgiveness and mercy.
As per my usual tradition,
I'm hosting a Suhoor.
I'm inviting everybody.
[slow Arabic music playing]
Tonight, we're going to LO's Suhoor.
And I'm super excited to see everybody
and just to have
a beautiful beginning to Ramadan.
[Farhana] I don't know the future
for Mo and I.
If things happen, it happens.
If not, we'll always remain friends.
LO invited us for Suhoor.
So I decided to bring my mother
because my wife is in Abu Dhabi.
-So nice.
-It's beautiful.
[Mona] Happy Ramadan.
Thank you. Hi, guys.
Today I'm going to a Suhoor with my mom.
Finally, my friends are going to meet her.
-[Loujain] Hello, everyone.
-Hi!
I want you to meet my mom.
[all cheering]
This is my mom.
I know you guys
have been waiting to meet her.
When I walked in with my mom,
everybody was shocked.
But their reaction was really so amazing.
So nice to meet you, Aunty.
Me too!
Now I can see
where LJ gets her beauty from.
Oh, thank you. No!
They were kinda shocked.
They didn't believe it.
It was very welcoming.
Allow me to give you all my best wishes
for this holy month.
May God bring you and all your loved ones
health, prosperity and blessings.
Next, let me congratulate you and Danya.
Thank you so much.
-I also heard some wonderful news.
-Thank you.
Everybody has made up, right?
-Yes, yes, yes.
-Yeah.
We all make mistakes,
but we must take them back and apologize.
[glass clinking]
We wanted to share
our baby news with everyone.
Should we tell them?
-Oh, I think I know.
-Tell them.
-I'm pregnant.
-[all cheering]
It's like surprise
after surprise, after surprise.
And I could not be any more proud
of my beautiful wife
and the journey
that she's been on for the last year
because it wasn't easy at all.
So we can talk about push present later?
Oh, don't even start!
Don't even start.
[Arabic music playing]
[Kris] Bravo!
[all applauding]
Come with me.
I hate when Fahad and I argue.
He is the most important person to me.
I need to take him to the side
and make things right.
I don't want to keep fighting with you
about the same stuff.
I want you to understand me a bit better.
-What are we talking about?
-I want to do surgery.
I spoke to some friends of mine,
and I found out there is a risk involved.
-That's why I'm just like freaking out
-Can we research it?
I did. I've made phone calls.
I've found out.
Nothing is without risk here, Safa.
I don't own her or control her to tell her
what she should or shouldn't do.
But because I love her,
obviously, I don't want to risk even that
1% chance of anything going wrong.
These things are very serious.
Anything goes wrong, anything happens,
how am I supposed to raise
two daughters by myself?
If something happened to me and I died,
I would turn into a ghost
and I would not let you
think about getting remarried,
if this is your threat to me, okay?
Okay. [sighs]
I'm not completely shutting the door,
I'm just saying, don't force me into it
and say everything has to be done now.
I'm never doing anything
without your permission.
So let's just agree that
Let's take our time. Let's take our time.
I feel Fahad is a rational person.
He's a logical person.
He needs his research
in order to make any type of decision,
and that's the way he functions.
There's something else
I wanted to tell you.
What else?
I'm willing to come to India.
Oh, really?
I'm going to come with the girls
whenever you go,
whenever you need us.
I can't imagine my life
without you within it.
I hate it when you leave,
so I'm going to be on your head.
Thank you.
Safa, I think she wants
to do the shuttle now.
She wants the kids
to be around the father,
and she knows how much I love the kids.
It's a good start.
I'm willing to go to India back and forth,
up and down with two little girls
because I love him
and my family comes first.
[upbeat Arabic music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[violin music playing]
Wait, is that Hasnain?
-[Marwan] No way!
-[Kris] Oh!
Who is this gentleman? Who's this?
Hasnain comes in a very serious way.
Walking straight into the Suhoor,
and then he grabs my hand.
[Kris] That's her man.
Suddenly, I don't know, out of nowhere,
something is happening.
What a surprise!
I planned to surprise Loujain.
She was looking so beautiful.
It's like ooh!
I used to hear a lot of things,
unconditional love.
And today I'm experiencing it,
"unconditional love."
I never thought that your happiness
would become my happiness.
Felt very emotional, what he said to me,
but then I was like,
"Why is this happening now?"
[voice breaking]
Every morning I want to wake up,
I want to see you in my life.
I never thought
someone can be so important in life.
I never thought
that I can feel your heartbeat
and I wanna become a father,
I want to become a husband.
Forever I want to take
this responsibility and shine.
And keep you happy.
And I want to be your rock.
And I love you.
It's a big step for me.
It's a big, big step.
I never thought
I'm going to take this step.
And Loujain
-Will you marry me?
-[all cheering]
[Kris] Say, "Yes."
[suspenseful music playing]
[dramatic music playing]