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Amal Clooney (Amal Alamuddin, born 3 February 1978)

3/2/2020

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Original name:        Amal Alamuddin; Arabic: أمل علم الدين
birth place:              Beirut
birth date:                3 February January 1978 
zodiac sign:              Aquarius
Height:                     
175 cm /  5' 9"
Weight:                    54 kg / 119 lbs
Measurements:       34"-26"-35"
           
Occupation:            Lawyer
Languages:             English, Arabics, French
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Profile of Amal Clooney

Amal Clooney (née Alamuddin; Arabic: أمل علم الدين‎; born 3 February 1978) in Lebanon.

Her father was the owner of COMET travel agency. Her mother, Bariaa Miknass, is a foreign editor of the Pan-Arab newspaper al-Hayat and 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. 

The birth of Amal has been difficult according to her mother and came during a lull in Lebanon's civil war, so her father named her Amal – Arabic for "hope" and 
when she was two years old, the family left for England and settled in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire.
Amal Alamuddin while a young and brillant student at the Dr Challoner’s High School.
Amal Alamuddin while a young and brillant student at the Dr Challoner’s High School.

Biography of Amal Clooney

She studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford, where she received an Exhibition and the Shrigley Award.
Amal Alamuddin as a college freshers photo at St Hugh's Oxford University in 1996
Amal Alamuddin as a college freshers photo at St Hugh's Oxford University in 1996
​In 2000, Clooney graduated with a BA degree in Jurisprudence.

The following year, in 2001, she entered New York University School and received the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award for excellence in entertainment law.

After graduation, Amal worked at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City for three years as part of the Criminal Defense and Investigations Group, where her clients included Enron and Arthur Andersen.
In 2010, she returned to Britain and became a barrister in London at Doughty Street Chambers. specialising in international law and human rights, and over the years, she has worked for some high profile clients such as Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, in his fight against extradition; the former prime minister of Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko; Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy; and Nobel Prize laureate Nadia Murad.

In 2013 Clooney was appointed to a number of United Nations commissions, including as adviser to Special Envoy Kofi Annan on Syria and as Counsel to the 2013 Drone Inquiry by UN human rights rapporteur Ben Emmerson QC into the use of drones in counter-terrorism operations.

On 25 February 2014, the UK Attorney General's Office appointed Clooney for the period 2014 to 2019 to the C Panel of the Public International Law Panel of Counsel.
Amal Clooney in Venice, 2014
Amal Clooney in Venice, 2014
On 28 April 2014, Amal was engaged to Hollywood actor George Clooney whom she met in July 2013.

On 7 August 2014, the couple obtained marriage licences in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London and married on 27 September 2014 in Venice's city hall  following a high-profile wedding ceremony.

In October 2014, The Clooneys bought the Mill House on an island in the River Thames at Sonning Eye in England at a cost of around £10 million.
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Amal Clooney at Golden Globe ceremony wearing black Dior evening gown
Apart from her attorney work and special UN commissions, Amal Clooney occasionally teach classes of human rights at universities and gives lectures on international criminal law.
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​After her marriage, she is also engaged in philanthropy with her husband George Clooney. They co-founded the Clooney Foundation for Justice in late 2016 to advance justice in courtrooms, communities, and classrooms around the world. She also helped in various causes through sponsorship, scholarship and donation on her own or with her husband
​In June 2017, Amal Clooney gave birth to twins: daughter Ella and son Alexander.
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In April 2019, Clooney became a special envoy at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, advising the Secretary of State, Jeremy Hunt on global media freedom. In her role as media freedom special envoy, Clooney will chair a panel of international lawyers to 'develop and promote legal mechanisms to prevent and reverse media abuses'.
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