Amal Clooney

Amal Clooney was born in Beirut. She was given the Arabic name'ml amal, which means "hope". Her family left Lebanon when she was two years old, in the Lebanese Civil War, and was 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. It was a part of the Alam al-Din family in Chouf District. When the war in Iraq ended in 1991 the family 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 an international editor as well as a political journalist at the Saudi-run al-Hayat paper. She founded International Communication Experts. The company, a part of a larger business, specializes in booking famous guests photographs for publicity events, advertising for events, and more. (17) Amal has three siblings: one sister (Tala) in addition to two half-brothers who were part of her father's first marriage. Amal was educated at Dr Challoner's high school located in Little Chalfont Buckinghamshire before going to the university. After graduating from St Hugh's College in Oxford with an Exhibition Grant as well as the Shrigley Award, she studied at St Hugh's College. The graduate received the Master of Arts (BA) degree with a Jurisprudence degree in 2000. (citation required) The next year she entered New York University School of Law to complete that Master of Laws (LL.M) degree. She received the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award to recognize excellence in entertainment law.While at NYU she spent one period in the office Sonia Sotomayor, then a judge in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and NYU Law faculty participant.