Amal Clooney

Amal Alamuddin Clooney grew up in Beirut, Lebanon. Her birthplace was Beirut, Lebanon. Arabic name'ml Amal, meaning "hope". Her family left Lebanon in the year two, at in the middle of civil war in Lebanon, to settle in Gerrards Cross Buckinghamshire. Ramzi Alamuddin is a Lebanese Druze who is from Baakline an area in the Chouf District of the Alam al-Din dynasty. He received an MBA at Beirut's American University of Beirut. Following the end of the civil war in 1991, [12]13], he returned 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 an international editorialist and political reporter for the Saudi-run al-Hayat paper. She established the public relations company International Communication Experts. This company is a part of an even larger firm which specializes in arranging celebrities as well as publicity photos and promotion of events. 17. Amal is the youngest of three children: one sister (Tala) and two half-brothers from her father's first marriage. (18) Amal has attended Dr Challoner's high school, a girls' grammar school situated in Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, before attending university. Following her graduation from St Hugh's College in Oxford with an Exhibition Grant as well as the Shrigley Award, she studied at St Hugh's College. The graduate received a Master of Arts (BA) degree with a Jurisprudence degree in 2000. After that, she entered New York University School of Law to pursue an Master of Laws degree (LL.M). In addition, the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award was presented for her excelling in entertainment.