Whatever Lola Wants is a 2007 French-Canadian romantic drama film directed by Nabil Ayouch. The film had its world premiere on December 11, 2007 at the Dubai International Film Festival and stars Laura Ramsey as an American postal worker who travels to Egypt to seek out a legendary belly dancer. In his book Film in the Middle East and North Africa Josef Gugler commented that at the time of its release, the film had a larger budget than any of the previous Moroccan films and was one of the highest grossing Moroccan films for 2008.