Amal Clooney

Amal Clooney was birthed in Beirut. Her birth name derives from 'ml, `amal in Arabic which means "hope". Her family emigrated from Lebanon in the year she turned two years old during the Lebanese Civil War, and settled in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. The father of her mother, Ramzi Alamuddin, a Lebanese Druze of the Alam al-Din dynasty village located in Baakline in the Chouf District,[11was awarded an MBA diploma from the American University of Beirut. In 1991, he returned Lebanon in the year 1991, following the close of the civil war. 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 the foreign editor for al-Hayat, a Saudi-run paper. 16. She is the founder of the public relations company International Communication Experts, which is part of a larger corporation that specialises in celebrity guest bookings photographer for publicity and promotions for events. Amal is the youngest of three children that include a half-sister (Tala) along with two siblings from Amal's father's prior marriage. 18. Amal has attended Dr Challoner's High School. It was which is a grammar school for girls situated within Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, before attending studying at university. She then studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford and was awarded an exhibition award and Shrigley Award. The degree she received was a Bachelor of Arts in Judiciary (BA) in 2000. The following year she was accepted into New York University School of Law to earn the Master of Laws Degree (LL.M). She was awarded The Jack J. Katz Memorial Award to honor her achievements in the area of entertainment law.