Amal Clooney

Amal Alamuddin was born in Beirut. The Arabic word that means "hope" is'ml. Her family left Lebanon when she was two at an era of war in Lebanon before settling in Gerrards Cross Buckinghamshire. Ramzi Alamuddin is a Lebanese Druze who comes from Baakline the village of Baakline, which lies in the Chouf District of the Alam al-Din Dynasty. He completed an MBA at Beirut's American University of Beirut. Following the end of the civil war in 1991, [12]13] 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 the foreign editor of al-Hayat the Saudi-owned newspaper. She founded the Public Relations firm International Communication Experts. This company is a part of an additional firm which specializes in arranging celebrities, publicity photography and events. Amal was the smallest of her three kids of one half-sister (Tala), and two other siblings of her father's previous marriage. Amal attended Dr Challoner High School (a girls grammar school situated in Little Chalfont Buckinghamshire) before she went to the university. After graduating 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 the bachelor of Arts degree (BA) in Jurisprudence. In the following year, she enrolled in the New York University School of Law to pursue The Master of Laws (LL.M) degree. She received the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award for her excellence in entertainment law.While studying at NYU she spent one semester in the office of Sonia Sotomayor, then a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and NYU Law faculty participant.