Maybe get others to fight back for you? Maybe??
I should have remembered that I have had bad fights with men from there and similar parts of the world. I must have gotten angry reading about all this gropage...grrrr... I can't believe that to hold your own you have to take what you learned from a Marine ex-boyfriend and your little sister's judo expertise.
I remember a story from an Egyptian friend: a group of boys was being unruly outside an apartment building, so a woman came out to tell them to shut the hell up. One of the young men broke a bottle over her head. Ouch.
However, let us all remember that assholes exist everywhere.