Amal Clooney

Amal Alamuddin Clooney grew up in Beirut, Lebanon. Her name comes of the form'ml' or 'amal' in Arabic, meaning "hope". [9] Her family left Lebanon at the age of two years old during the Lebanese Civil War, and was settled in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. Ramzi Alamuddin is a Lebanese Druze who is from Baakline the village of Baakline, which lies within the Chouf District of the Alam al-Din Dynasty. He completed an MBA from Beirut's American University of Beirut. In 1991, he came back to Lebanon when the Civil War ended. 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-run al-Hayat publication. The Public Relations firm International Communication Experts. This company is a part of an even larger firm that specialises in the booking of celebrities, publicity photography and events. Amal was raised in Manila. She is the mother of two brothers and a sister. Amal was a student at Dr Challoner High School (a girls' grammar school located situated in Little Chalfont Buckinghamshire) before she went to university. After graduating in 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 bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Jurisprudence in the year 2000. In the following year she was accepted into New York University School of Law for graduation with a Master of Laws Degree (LL.M). She received the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award for excellence in entertainment law.While studying 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.