Amal Clooney

 Amal Alamuddin was born in Beirut (Lebanon). Her birth name is "ml," which translates to "amal" in Arabic meaning "hope". Her family moved out of Lebanon when she was two years old in the Lebanese Civil War, and was settled in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. Her father was Ramzi Alamuddin, a Lebanese Druze from the Alam al-Din dynasty , was a village in Baakline in the Chouf District, Beirut. After the civil war ended, he returned to Lebanon in 1991. Bariaa (nee Miknass), her mother, is born in Tripoli, Northern Lebanon. She is a journalist as well as a foreign editor for the Pan-Arab newspaper al-Hayat. 15 years ago, she founded the firm of public relations International Communication Experts. This is part of a larger business which specializes in booking celebrity guests as well as publicity photography. Clooney is the half-sister of one of her siblings and two half-brothers. Her father was the first one to get married. Clooney attended Dr Challoner's High School, a girls' grammar school situated in Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, prior to going to university. After graduation from Oxford's St Hugh's College in 2000 Clooney was awarded an exhibition grant, as well as the Shrigley Award. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in jurisprudence in 2000. [citation needed] The next year, she enrolled in the New York University School of Law to earn the Master of Laws (LL.M) degree. She was awarded the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award for her excellence in the field of entertainment law. While at NYU she worked for one term within the office of Sonia Sotomayor, then a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and NYU Law faculty member.