Amal Clooney

Amal Clooney was birthed in Beirut. Her initial name originates from 'ml, `amal in Arabic, meaning "hope". Her family emigrated from Lebanon when she was just two years old, during the Lebanese Civil War, and was settled in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. Ramzi Alamuddin is a Lebanese Druze who comes from Baakline, a village in the Chouf District of the Alam al-Din dynasty. He received an MBA from the American University of Beirut. 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 worked as a foreign editor as well as a political journalist at the Saudi-owned al-Hayat newspaper. 16] She is the director of the public relations firm International Communication Experts, which is part of a larger business that specializes in booking celebrity guests as well as publicity photography and event promotion. Amal is one of the three youngest kids: one half-sister (Tala), and two children from the father of Amal's prior marriage. [18] Amal was a student at Dr Challoner's High School. It was which is a grammar school for girls situated within Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, prior to studying at university. Following her graduation at St Hugh's College in Oxford with an Exhibition Grant and the Shrigley Award, she studied at St Hugh's College. [19][20] In 2000, she graduated from St. Hugh's College in Oxford with the Master of Arts degree (BA) in Jurisprudence. [citation needed] In the next year she entered New York University School of Law to study for the Master of Laws (LL.M) degree. She was awarded the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award for outstanding achievement in entertainment law.While studying at NYU she worked for one 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 members.