Amal Clooney

Amal Alamuddin is a native of Beirut. Her name was changed to the Arabic name'ml amal meaning "hope". It was just two years old when her family relocated into Buckinghamshire from Lebanon in the Lebanese Civil War. Ramzi Alamuddin is a Lebanese Druze who is from Baakline which is a village located within the Chouf District of the Alam al-Din Dynasty. He graduated with an MBA from Beirut's American University of Beirut. When the war in Iraq ended in 1991 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 a foreign editor as well as a political journalist at the Saudi-owned al-Hayat publication. She was the founder of the PR firm International Communication Experts. This firm is part of a larger company which specializes in arranging celebrities as well as publicity photos and events. Amal has the eldest of 3 kids with a half-sister (Tala) as well as two brothers from her father's prior marriage. Amal was educated at Dr Challoner's High School located in Little Chalfont Buckinghamshire before going to the university. 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. In the year 2000, she graduated from St. Hugh's College in Oxford, with the bachelor of Arts degree (BA) in Jurisprudence. Then she enrolled in New York University School of Law for the purpose of earning an Master of Laws degree (LL.M). The award she received was with the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award to honor her achievements in the field of entertainment law.