Amal Clooney

Amal Clooney was birthed in Beirut. The Arabic word that means "hope" is'ml. Her family fled Lebanon at the age of two years old, during the time of civil conflict in Lebanon before settling in Gerrards Cross Buckinghamshire. [10] Her father Ramzi Alamuddin, a Lebanese Druze from the Alam al-Din dynasty, a village in Baakline in the Chouf Districtearned his MBA diploma from the American University of Beirut. Then 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. She was editor of foreign affairs of al-Hayat an Arabic-language newspaper published by Saudi Arabia. 16] She is the co-founder of the public relations firm International Communication Experts, which is part of a larger firm that specializes in booking celebrity guests photographs for publicity, as well as the promotion of events. [17] Amal has three brothers including one sibling (Tala) in addition to two half-brothers from her father's marriage to his first wife. [18] Amal has attended Dr Challoner's High School. It was an elementary school for girls situated within Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, before going to going to university. Her next university was St Hugh's College, Oxford which she was awarded an exhibit grant as well as the Shrigley Award. The degree she received was an undergraduate degree, a Bachelor of Arts in Judiciary (BA) at the age of 2000. In the following year, she entered New York University School of Law to earn graduation with a Master of Laws Degree (LL.M). The award she received was the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award to recognize her excellence in the field of entertainment law.