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Amal Clooney | |
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أمل كلوني | |
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Born | Amal Alamuddin (أمل علم الدين) 3 February 1978 Beirut, Lebanon |
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Occupation | Barrister |
Years active | 2000–present |
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Children | 2 |
Amal Clooney (née Alamuddin; Arabic: أمل كلوني; born 3 February 1978)[1] is a British international human rights lawyer.[2] Notable clients of hers include former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed,[3] Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange,[4] former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko,[5] Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad,[6] Filipino-American journalist Maria Ressa,[7] Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova,[8] and Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy.[9] 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 the Clooney Foundation for Justice.