There are leaders who follow the curve, and there are leaders who bend it. In the white-hot crucible of Dubai’s real estate market a landscape of superlatives and cutthroat competition Anthony Joseph Abou-Jaoude has not merely survived; he has fundamentally rewritten the genetic code of the industry. When he landed in Dubai in 2014 with exactly $500 to his name, the skyline was already ambitious, but it lacked something far more important than towers: it lacked a new philosophy. Eleven years later, as we look toward 2026, AJ as he is known to the thousands who hang on his every…