Amal Clooney

Amal Clooney was birthed 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 into Buckinghamshire from Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War. Ramzi Alamuddin is a Lebanese Druze that hails from Baakline, a village in the Chouf District of the Alam al-Din Dynasty. He earned an MBA at the American University of Beirut. He returned in 1991 [12] home to Lebanon when the Civil War concluded. 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 as well as a political journalist at the Saudi-owned al-Hayat journal. 16. She is the founder of the public relations firm International Communication Experts, which is part of a larger corporation that is specialized in booking celebrity guests, publicity photography, and the promotion of events. Amal was raised in Manila. There are two brothers and a sister. (18) Amal was a student at Dr Challoner's high school, a girls' grammar school located in Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, before attending college. Her next university was St Hugh's College, Oxford in which she won an exhibit grant as well as the Shrigley Award. [19][20] She graduated with the Master of Arts (BA) degree in the field of jurisprudence in. Following that she enrolled in New York University School of Law to earn 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 at NYU she interned for a year in the office Sonia Sotomayor, then a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and NYU Law faculty members.