Amal Clooney

Amal Alamuddin Clooney was born in Beirut, Lebanon. Her birthplace was Beirut, Lebanon. Arabic name'ml Amal, meaning "hope". The family of her parents left Lebanon when she was two years old, in the Lebanese Civil War, and moved to Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. Ramzi Alamuddin is a Lebanese Druze who comes from Baakline the village of Baakline, which lies within the Chouf District of the Alam al-Din dynasty. He earned an MBA from Beirut's American University of Beirut. In 1991, he came back to Lebanon after the Civil War was over. 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 served as an foreign editor as well as a political journalist at the Saudi-run al-Hayat journal. She was the founder of the PR company International Communication Experts. This company is a part of an even larger firm that specializes in booking celebrities, publicity photography and events. 17 years old Amal has three brothers One sister (Tala) in addition to two half-brothers from her father's marriage to his first wife. Amal was a student at Dr Challoner High School (a girls grammar school situated in Little Chalfont Buckinghamshire) before she attended University. After graduating of St Hugh's College in Oxford with an Exhibition Grant, as well as the Shrigley Award, she studied at St Hugh's College. [19][20] In 2000, she graduated from the St. Hugh's College in Oxford with an undergraduate Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) in Jurisprudence. (citation required) The next year, she attended New York University School of Law to pursue the Master of Laws (LL.M) degree. She was awarded an award called the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award to honor her achievements in entertainment laws.