Amal Clooney

Amal Alamuddin was born in Beirut. Her first name is of the form'ml' or 'amal' in Arabic which means "hope". The young girl was only 2 when her family moved from Lebanon to Buckinghamshire from Lebanon in the Lebanese Civil War. Ramzi Alamuddin received his MBA from the American University of Beirut. Ramzi Alamuddin was a Lebanese Druze, who came from Baakline village. It was a part of the Alam al-Din dynasty located in Chouf District. In 1991, he returned Lebanon in 1991 [12][13] shortly after the conclusion of the civil conflict. 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-run al-Hayat publication. The newspaper was founded by her International Communication Experts. The company, part of another bigger business, is specialized in booking celebrities photographer, publicity, promotions for events, etc. (17) Amal has three brothers including one sibling (Tala) as well as two half brothers from her father's marriage to his first wife. Amal attended Dr Challoner High School (a girls' grammar school located situated in Little Chalfont Buckinghamshire) before she attended university. She then studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford, where she received an exhibition award and Shrigley Award. She received a Master of Arts in Judiciary (BA) in 2000. Then she enrolled in New York University School of Law to obtain the Master of Laws degree (LL.M). The award she received was the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award for outstanding achievement in entertainment law.While studying at NYU she interned for a semester in the office of Sonia Sotomayor, then a judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and NYU Law faculty member