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'''Amal Clooney''' ({{nee|'''Alamuddin'''}}; {{lang-ar|أمل كلوني}}; born {{birth date|1978|2|3|df=yes}})<ref name="People-40thBday-2018">{{cite news|last1=Russian|first1=Ale|title=Amal's Big 40! George Clooney Celebrates Wife's Birthday on 24-Hour Getaway|url=http://people.com/movies/amals-big-40-george-clooney-celebrates-wifes-birthday-on-24-hour-getaway/|work=[[People (magazine)|People]]|date=5 February 2018}}</ref> is a British<!--Do NOT add "Lebanese" without consensus, see [[MOS:NATIONALITY]].--> international [[human rights lawyer]].<ref name="VanityFair">{{cite magazine|title=George Clooney Finally Meets His Match With Human Rights Lawyer Amal Alamuddin|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/03/amal-clooney-international-human-rights-lawyer-job-explained|magazine=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|date=29 March 2017}}</ref> Notable clients of hers include former Maldivian president [[Mohamed Nasheed]],<ref name="doughtystreet.co.uk">{{Cite web|title=Amal Clooney|url=https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/barristers/amal-clooney|access-date=28 October 2021|website=[[Doughty Street Chambers]]}}</ref> Australian [[WikiLeaks]] founder [[Julian Assange]],<ref name="ABCNews-5Things-2014">{{cite news|work=[[ABC News]]|url=http://www.abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/things-george-clooneys-lady-friend-amal-alamuddin/story?id=22960268|last=Rothman|first=Michael|title=5 Things About Amal Alamuddin|date=19 March 2014}}</ref> former Ukrainian prime minister [[Yulia Tymoshenko]],<ref name="Independent-Engagement-2014">{{cite news|first1=Ian|last1=Johnston|title=George Clooney Engaged To Amal Alamuddin: Actor To Marry British Human Rights Lawyer Who Has Represented Julian Assange|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/george-clooney-to-marry-his-british-lawyer-girlfriend-amal-alamuddin-9294602.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140428045512/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/george-clooney-to-marry-his-british-lawyer-girlfriend-amal-alamuddin-9294602.html |archive-date=28 April 2014 |url-status=live|work=[[The Independent]]|date=27 April 2014}}</ref> Iraqi human rights activist [[Nadia Murad]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://en.vogue.me/culture/lifestyle-and-travel/nadia-murad-amal-clooney-nobel-peace-prize/|title=Nadia Murad is Joined by Amal Clooney as She Accepts Nobel Peace Prize|magazine=[[Vogue Arabia]]|last=Day|first=Emma|date=11 December 2018}}</ref> Filipino-American journalist [[Maria Ressa]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Clooney|first=Amal|title=Amal Clooney: A test for democracy in the Philippines|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/12/amal-clooney-test-democracy-philippines/|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=June 12, 2020|access-date=December 26, 2020}}</ref> Azerbaijani journalist [[Khadija Ismayilova]],<ref>{{Cite news |date=2016-05-25 |title=Azerbaijan court frees journalist backed by Amal Clooney |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36379828 |access-date=2024-01-16 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref> and Egyptian-Canadian journalist [[Mohamed Fahmy]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/06/amal-clooney-egypt-journalist-mohamed-fahmy|title=Amal Clooney calls on Egypt to release journalist Mohamed Fahmy|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|last=Kingsley|first=Patrick|date=6 November 2014|access-date=20 September 2019}}</ref> She has held various appointments with the [[Government of the United Kingdom]] and the [[United Nations]], and is also an adjunct law professor at [[Columbia Law School]]. In 2016, she and her husband, the American actor [[George Clooney]], co-founded,

== Early life and education ==

Amal Alamuddin ({{lang|ar|أمل علم الدين|rtl=yes}}) was born in [[Beirut]], [[Lebanon]], on 3 February 1978.<ref name="ManVs.Society-Amal-Meaning-2014">{{cite book|last1=Rosenthal|first1=Franz|editor1-last=Gutas|editor1-first=Dimitri|title=Man Versus Society in Medieval Islam|date=2014|publisher=Brill|location=Leiden; Boston|isbn=978-9-004-27089-3|page=613|oclc=892338528}}</ref> Her father is [[Lebanese Druze|Druze]] [[Lebanese people|Lebanese]] and her mother is a [[Lebanese Sunni Muslims|Sunni Muslim]] from Lebanon. When she was two years old, her family left Lebanon to escape the [[Lebanese Civil War]] and arrived in the [[United Kingdom]], where they settled in [[Gerrards Cross]] in [[Buckinghamshire]].<ref name=Telegraph-Engagement-2014>{{cite news|last1=Flanagan|first1=Padraic|title=George Clooney Engaged to High-Flying British Lawyer|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10793797/George-Clooney-engaged-to-high-flying-British-lawyer.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10793797/George-Clooney-engaged-to-high-flying-British-lawyer.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=28 April 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> She has three siblings: one sister (Tala Alamuddin) and two half-brothers from her father's first marriage.<ref name="NOW-LebanonPride-2014">{{cite news|agency=AFP|title=Lebanon in frenzy over Clooney-Alamuddin engagement|url=https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/lebanonnews/545482-lebanon-in-frenzy-over-clooney-alamuddin-engagement|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141013112657/https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/lebanonnews/545482-lebanon-in-frenzy-over-clooney-alamuddin-engagement|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 October 2014|access-date=28 September 2014|website=[[NOW News]]|date=1 May 2014}}</ref>