Amal Clooney

Amal Alamuddin was born in Beirut. The Arabic word for "hope" is'ml. She was only two when her family relocated in Buckinghamshire from Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War. Ramzi Alamuddin is a Lebanese Druze who is from Baakline, a village within the Chouf District of the Alam al-Din dynasty. He completed an MBA from the American University of Beirut. It was his return to Lebanon in 1991[12][13] after the conclusion of the civil conflict. 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 worked as a journalist for the political side and editor in foreign for the Saudi-run publication al-Hayat. She was the founder of the PR firm International Communication Experts. This company is a part of a larger company that specialises in the booking of celebrities photographers, publicity and events. Amal is one of the three youngest kids with a half-sister (Tala), and two brothers from her father's prior marriage. [18] Amal attended Dr Challoner's School of High Education, which is a grammar school for girls located within Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, before attending university. After that, she went to St Hugh's College at Oxford which, in addition to was awarded the Shrigley Award and an exhibition grant. Her graduation was with her BA of Arts (BA) degree in the field of jurisprudence in. [citation needed] The following year, she attended New York University School of Law in order to earn that Master of Laws (LL.M) degree. She received the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award for excellence in entertainment law.While studying at NYU she was employed for a term in the office of Sonia Sotomayor, then a judge in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and NYU Law faculty member