Amal Clooney

 Amal Alamuddin Clooney was born Beirut, Lebanon. Her first name is from "ml," which translates to "amal" in Arabic meaning "hope". Her family fled Lebanon when she was two in the Lebanese Civil War and settled in Gerrards Cross (Buckinghamshire). Ramzi Alamuddin was her father and was a Lebanese Druze, from Alam al-Din in the Chouf District of Beirut. After the end of the civil war and he returned to Lebanon in 1991. Bariaa (nee Miknass) is her mother. is born in Tripoli, Northern Lebanon. She is a journalist as well as a foreign editor of the Pan-Arab newspaper al-Hayat. [15] She founded the company for public relations, International Communication Experts. This is part of a larger company that is specialized in booking celebrities for guest appearances and publicity photography. Clooney has three children: one of them is a sister and two half-brothers from her father's previous marriage. Clooney attended Dr Challoner's High School. It was a grammar school for girls located in Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, prior to going to university. She then studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford and was awarded an exhibition grant and the Shrigley Award. In 2000, she graduated from St Hugh's College with an undergraduate Bachelor of Arts (BA), degree in Jurisprudence. She enrolled in New York University School of Law the following year to earn her Master of Laws degree. She received the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award which honors excellence in the field of entertainment law. At NYU she worked for a semester in the office of Sonia Sotomayor, then a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and NYU Law faculty member.