Amal Clooney

Amal Clooney was born in Beirut, Lebanon. The name she was given was the Arabic name'ml-amal, which translates as "hope". [9] Her family left Lebanon when she was two years old, during the Lebanese Civil War, and settled in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. Ramzi Alamuddin is a Lebanese Druze who hails from Baakline an area in the Chouf District of the Alam al-Din dynasty. He received an MBA from Beirut's American University of Beirut. He returned to Lebanon in 1991[12][13] after the close of the civil war. 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 editor and political journalist for the Saudi-run al-Hayat paper. Her name is 16 and she's a co-founder of the public relations firm International Communication Experts, which is part of a larger business that specializes in celebrity guest bookings photographs for publicity, as well as promotions for events. Amal has the eldest of 3 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 School of High Education, the girls' grammar school located within Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, before going to going to university. After graduating of 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 an undergraduate bachelor of Arts degree (BA) in Jurisprudence. Then she enrolled in New York University School of Law to pursue an Master of Laws degree (LL.M). She was awarded 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 of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and NYU Law faculty participant.