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 to Lebanon when she was 2 during the Lebanese Civil War and settled in Gerrards Cross (Buckinghamshire). Ramzi Alamuddin was her father, who was a Lebanese Druze, from Alam al-Din, which is located in the Chouf District of Beirut. He returned to Lebanon in 1991 following the ending of the civil war. Bariaa (nee Miknass) is her mother. She is born in Tripoli, Northern Lebanon. She is a journalist and foreign editor for the Pan-Arab newspaper al-Hayat. 15] She is the founder of the public relations company International Communication Experts, which is part of a larger company which specializes in celebrity guest bookings, publicity photography, and events promotion. Clooney is the half-sister of one of her siblings as well as two half-brothers. Her father was the first one to marry her. Clooney was educated at Dr Challoner's High School, a girls’ grammar school located in Little Chalfont (Buckinghamshire), before attending university. After graduation from Oxford's St Hugh's College in 2000 Clooney was awarded an exhibition grant and the Shrigley Award. In 2000, she graduated from St Hugh's College with a Bachelor of Arts (BA), degree in Jurisprudence. [citation needed] She entered New York University School of Law in the year following to earn her Master of Laws degree. She received the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award that recognizes the best in entertainment law. She was a student at NYU in the office of Sonia Sotomayor (then a judge at the United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit) and a NYU Law faculty member.