Amal Clooney

Amal Alamuddin was born in Beirut. Her first name is taken from the word'ml', which is Arabic which means "hope". Her family fled Lebanon when she was two at a time of civil conflict in Lebanon and settled in Gerrards Cross Buckinghamshire. 10] Her father Ramzi Alamuddin, a Lebanese Druze who was from the Alam al-Din dynasty village of Baakline in the Chouf District,[11earned his MBA degree at the American University of Beirut. In the year 1991[12]13], he returned home to Lebanon following the civil war that had was over. Her mother, Baria (nee Miknass), was born to a family of Sunni Muslims in Tripoli in Northern Lebanon,[14][11] and a Palestinian-Jordanian[15] mother. She was editor of foreign affairs of al-Hayat an Arabic-language newspaper published by Saudi Arabia. 16. She is the founder of the public relations firm International Communication Experts, which is part of a larger company that specializes in celebrity guest bookings photographer for publicity and promotions for events. Amal is the youngest of three children of one half-sister (Tala) as well as two children from the father of Amal's prior marriage. 18. Amal went to Dr Challoner's High School. It was an elementary school for girls situated in Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, prior to college. Then she attended St Hugh's College, Oxford in which she won an exhibition award and Shrigley Award. In the year 1921, she graduated with a bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Jurisprudence in the year 2000. After that she began her studies at New York University School of Law for graduation with a Master of Laws Degree (LL.M). She received the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award for outstanding achievement in entertainment law.While at NYU she was employed for a term in the office of Sonia Sotomayor, then a judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and NYU Law faculty participant.