Amal Clooney

Amal Clooney was born in Beirut, Lebanon. Her name was changed to the Arabic name'ml Amal, which means "hope". Her family emigrated from Lebanon when she was two years old, during the Lebanese Civil War, and relocated to Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. Ramzi Alamuddin received his MBA from the American University of Beirut. Ramzi Alamuddin was a Lebanese Druze, who came from Baakline village, a part of the Alam al-Din dynasty located in Chouf District. The civil war came to an end in 1991[12][13] and he relocated 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 newspaper. 16] She is the co-founder of the public relations company International Communication Experts, which is part of a larger corporation that specializes in booking celebrity guests photographs for publicity, as well as event promotion. Amal has the eldest of 3 children that include a half-sister (Tala), and two siblings from Amal's father's previous marriage. [18] Amal has attended Dr Challoner's high school, an elementary school for girls situated within Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, before going to college. Following her graduation at St Hugh's College in Oxford with an Exhibition Grant as well as the Shrigley Award, she studied at St Hugh's College. The year 2000 was the year she graduated from the St. Hugh's College in Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) in Jurisprudence. In the following year, she attended New York University School of Law to pursue that Master of Laws (LL.M) degree. The Jack J. Katz Memorial Award was presented to her for excelling in entertainment.