Edouard Al-Dahdah was born in the Middle Eastern country of Lebanon. He is a senior official at the World Bank. He is fluent in Arabic, French and English. His family has bred Arabian horses for three generations. He currently owns ten Arabian horses from endangered old American bloodlines. His passions are the history of the Arabian horse and the Bedouins of Arabia, and the preservation of the original qualities and type of the horse of the desert.