Amal Clooney

Amal Clooney was born in Beirut, Lebanon. The name she was given was the Arabic name'ml-amal, which translates as "hope". It was just two years old when her family relocated in Buckinghamshire from Lebanon in the Lebanese Civil War. [10] Her father Ramzi Alamuddin, a Lebanese Druze of the Alam al-Din dynasty, a village in Baakline in the Chouf District] received his MBA degree from the American University of Beirut. In the year 1991[12]13], he returned to Lebanon when the Civil War ended. 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 a political journalist and foreign editor of the Saudi-owned newspaper al-Hayat. She established the public relations firm International Communication Experts. This firm is part of a larger company which specializes in arranging celebrities as well as publicity photos as well as event promotion. Amal is one of the three youngest kids of one half-sister (Tala) along with two other siblings of her father's prior marriage. Amal attended Dr Challoner's High School located in Little Chalfont Buckinghamshire before going to university. Following her graduation of St Hugh's College in Oxford with an Exhibition Grant, as well as the Shrigley Award, she studied at St Hugh's College. In the year 2000, she graduated from St. George's College in Oxford, with an undergraduate bachelor of Arts degree (BA) in Jurisprudence. She then entered New York University School of Law for the purpose of earning a Master of Laws degree (LL.M). The award she received was the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award to recognize excellence in entertainment law.While studying at NYU she worked for one semester in the office of Sonia Sotomayor, then a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and NYU Law faculty participant.