Amal Clooney

Amal Alamuddin was born Beirut. Her first name is an'ml' and 'amal' Arabic and means "hope". Her family left Lebanon when she was two, at the time of civil war in Lebanon, to settle 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 the American University of Beirut. He returned to Lebanon in 1991[12][13] following the close 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. Her title was foreign editor of al-Hayat which is a Saudi-owned paper. She was the founder of International Communication Experts. The company, a part of a more extensive business, specialises in arranging celebrity appearances, publicity photography, promotional events, etc. Amal is the youngest of three kids of one half-sister (Tala) as well as two children from the father of Amal's prior marriage. Amal went to Dr Challoner High School (a girls' grammar school located situated in Little Chalfont Buckinghamshire) before she went to the university. Her next university was St Hugh's College, Oxford in which she won an award for exhibitions and the Shrigley Award. The graduate received an undergraduate BA of Arts (BA) degree with a Jurisprudence degree in 2000. She then entered New York University School of Law in order to earn the Master of Laws degree (LL.M). It was awarded the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award was presented to her for outstanding performance in the field of entertainment.