Level Up Magazine ft. 'Crazy Rich Arabs' by Walid Chaya May 2025

Thursday, May 8, 2025 | 'Crazy Rich Arabs', a new film by Walid Chaya, explores culture and identity with heart and humor.

"What happens when one brother is hiding a secret, the other is living large, and a wedding is about to blow it all up. 

Crazy Rich Arabs, the new feature film in development by Walid Chaya, is a fast, funny, and heartfelt take on culture, chaos, and identity in the modern Middle East diaspora. Set between Beirut and Los Angeles, the film follows twin Arab-American brothers raised on opposite sides of the world. Omar is a high-powered divorce lawyer in L.A., all confidence and excess. His twin, Yousouf, is a closeted school music teacher in Beirut—gentle, reserved, and quietly living under the weight of expectation. When Yousouf flies to L.A. for an arranged marriage, he doesn’t choose, but a chance run-in reunites the brothers and sparks an outrageous idea: swap lives for a week.." - Ellora Cummins, Level Up Magazine

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