Amal Clooney
Amal Clooney
Amal Clooney (née Alamuddin; Arabic: أمل علم الدين; born 3 February 1978)[1] is a Lebanese and British barrister.[2] Her clients include Filipino and American journalist Maria Ressa;[3] former President of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed;[4] Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks;[5] former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko;[6] Egyptian-born Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy;[7] and Iraqi activist Nadia Murad.
Early life and family
Amal Alamuddin Clooney was born in Beirut, Lebanon. Her first name is from أمل, ʾamal in Arabic, meaning "hope"
Her family left Lebanon when she was two years old, during the Lebanese Civil War, and settled in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire.
Her father Ramzi Alamuddin, a Lebanese Druze from the Alam al-Din dynasty village of Baakline in the Chouf District,[11] received his MBA degree at the American University of Beirut. He returned to Lebanon in 1991[12][13] after the end of the civil war.
Her mother, Baria (née Miknass), is half Tunisian and half Palestinian-Jordanian[14] from a family of Sunni Muslims in Tripoli in Northern Lebanon,[15][11] and was a political journalist and foreign editor of the Saudi-run newspaper al-Hayat.[16] She is a founder of the public relations company International Communication Experts, which is part of a larger company that specialises in celebrity guest bookings, publicity photography, and event promotion.
Since 2015, Clooney has been a visiting faculty member and a senior fellow of Columbia Law School's Human Rights Institute, where she co-teaches the Human Rights Course with Professor Sarah H. Cleveland.[36] Clooney has also lectured students on international criminal law at the SOAS School of Law in London, The New School in New York City, The Hague Academy of International Law, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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