Amal Clooney

Amal Almamuddin was born Beirut. Her name comes taken from the word'ml', which is Arabic, meaning "hope". Her family fled Lebanon when she was two, at in the middle of civil war in Lebanon before settling in Gerrards Cross Buckinghamshire. Ramzi Alamuddin is a Lebanese Druze that hails from Baakline the village of Baakline, which lies situated in the Chouf District of the Alam al-Din dynasty. He earned an MBA from Beirut's American University of Beirut. Then he returned to Lebanon in 1991 [12][13] shortly after the close of the civil conflict. 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 journal. [16] She is a founder of the public relations firm International Communication Experts, which is part of a larger corporation that specialises in booking celebrity guests as well as publicity photography and the promotion of events. [17] Amal has three siblings: one sister (Tala) along with two brothers from her father's previous marriage. Amal was educated at Dr Challoner's high school in Little Chalfont Buckinghamshire before going to the university. In the following years, she was a student at St Hugh's College at Oxford where, among other things was awarded the Shrigley Award and an exhibition grant. In the year 1921, she graduated with an undergraduate bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in jurisprudence in 2000. Following that, she entered New York University School of Law in pursuit of graduation with a Master of Laws Degree (LL.M). This award, known as the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award was given for her outstanding performance in the field of entertainment.