Amal Clooney

Amal Alamuddin Clooney was conceived in Beirut, Lebanon. Her birth name derives an'ml' and 'amal' Arabic which means "hope". Her family fled Lebanon in the year two at an era of conflict in Lebanon and settled in Gerrards Cross Buckinghamshire. Ramzi Alamuddin received his MBA at the American University of Beirut. Ramzi Alamuddin was a Lebanese Druze and was from Baakline village which is part of the Alam al-Din dynasty located in Chouf District. Following the end of the civil war in 1991 He returned to Lebanon. 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 foreign reporter and editor for the Saudi-owned al-Hayat paper. She was the founder of International Communication Experts. The company, a part of a more extensive business, specialises in booking celebrity guests and publicity photos, as well as advertising for events, and more. Amal is a native of the Philippines. She has two brothers and a sister. [18] Amal was a student at Dr Challoner's high school, which is a grammar school for girls situated within Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, prior to college. After that, she went to St Hugh's College at Oxford which, in addition to she was awarded the Shrigley Award and an exhibition award. [19][20] In 2000, she graduated from St. George's College in Oxford with an undergraduate Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) in Jurisprudence. Then she enrolled in New York University School of Law to pursue the Master of Laws degree (LL.M). She was awarded the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award for excellence in entertainment law.While at NYU she interned for a term 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.