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Amal Clooney facts for kids
Amal Clooney (néeAlamuddin; Arabic: أمل كلوني; born (1978-02-03)3 February 1978) is a British international human rights lawyer. She has represented several high-profile clients, including former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad, Filipino-American journalist Maria Ressa, Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova, and Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy. She has also held various appointments with both the United Nations and the Government of the United Kingdom. She is an adjunct law professor at Columbia Law School. In 2016, she and her husband, American actor George Clooney, co-founded the Clooney Foundation for Justice.
Early life and education
Amal Alamuddin (أمل علم الدين) was born in Beirut, Lebanon, on 3 February 1978. Her father is Druze Lebanese and her mother is a 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 King
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George Clooney slams story of in-law rift over religion
George Clooney, whose love life has been well chronicled through the years on red carpets and in paparazzi shots, rarely addresses details about his personal relationships.
He isn't one to kiss and tell. He hasn't even officially acknowledged that he's engaged to glamorous international human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin, 36, as has been reported since April.
But he's making an exception now.
Clooney, 53, is refuting a Daily Mail story that said Baria Alamuddin, his future mother-in-law, is against the impending marriage for religious reasons.
The British tabloid's story quoted unnamed sources as saying that Baria Alamuddin, a journalist and broadcaster in the Middle East and the United Kingdom, thinks her daughter "can do better" than Clooney, specifically by marrying into the family's Druze religion. The story said Baria has been saying as much to friends in Beirut, where Amal was born.
"First of all, factually none of the story is true," Clooney said in an exclusive st
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George Clooney slams Daily Mail over 'irresponsible' marriage story
US actor George Clooney has accused the Daily Mail of "irresponsibility" after it claimed his fiancee's mother opposes their marriage on religious grounds.
The British tabloid, he said, had been "negligent" in "exploit[ing] religious differences where none exist".
Earlier this week, the Mail claimed Amal Alamuddin's mother, Baria, wished her daughter to be married within the relatively small Druze sect.
The Mail Online has since apologised "for any distress caused".
In a piece published by USA Today, external, Clooney said he was "used to the Daily Mail making up stories" and accepted "freedom of speech can be an inconvenience to [his] private life".
Yet the piece in question, he went on, put his family and friends "in harm's way" and took the newspaper "into the arena of inciting violence".
"We have family members all over the world, and the idea that someone would inflame any part of that world
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