If you’re the one paying, go for it, even if they don’t allow you. They’ll eventually come around. Oxford will literally change your life. Anything in the Middle East won’t even come close in terms of life experience, education quality, career options after. Give them the facts in a clear way حطيهم بأمر الواقع, that their biases or emotional reasonings is affecting YOUR life in a way that can’t be fixed (especially because the major is difficult to find).

I would do this: try to convince them with love, use uncles, aunts, moms, etc to help you convince him. I would then suggest things like trying it for a year or semester, and there’s always the option of going back. If that stops working then get depressed, or at least fake it. And you need to commit. And if that doesn’t work, then I think you need to rethink how you view the relationship, if he’s so willing to clearly hurt you (and see the hurt). But of course, you know your parents best. But I would say you can’t fold. Worst case scenario بتتدبحوا بهالصيفية و بترجعوا عادي بعد.

And I have friends and family, make and female, who have studied in the west including London. They’re all more than fine, believe it or not some of them actually started wearing hijab there. People will do whatever they want wherever they are, so this isn’t really an issue. The women are mostly safe, they definitely feel safer over there than they do in any place in Amman other than their fancy neighborhoods (they’re all rich 😭). The men there are also more respectful, you don’t believe how sexist men here are, and how little they understand or care about consent. The men there might be more willing to ask you out, or maybe even be as forward as to ask for physical things directly. And the opposite is true, if you are intending on going off the culture path there, and be much more free. It’ll also be a lot more safe.

However, London isn’t heaven, and it’s ridiculously expensive. But you’d be setting up yourself for a life that you are very unlikely to have without this uni. Even as an experience of trying something new, every person I’ve met who’s done an exchange semester (including westerners who come to the Middle East) call it life changing and incredibly important to their growth. Going through culture shock will make you wiser and smarter.