After an eclectic, international upbringing in the Gulf and Europe, and a life-changing move to study in Los Angeles when he turned 20 years old, Abboud Malak relocated to Dubai in 2004, establishing Studio M just as the city was, as he says, “on the cusp of its unrelenting upward development.” In Dubai, Malak found himself at the forefront of an exciting new market: “The timing could not have been better,” he shares. “I wanted to express myself creatively on a larger scale and the city offered me the perfect setting to do so.”

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