# Amal Clooney

amal clooney (née Alamuddin; Arabic: أمل علم الدين‎; born 3 February 1978) is a Lebanese-British barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, specialising in international law and human rights. Her clients include 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 2019, Clooney was appointed the special envoy on media freedom by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. She resigned from this role on September 18 2020 disagreeing with the U.K. Government's willingness to break international law == Early life and family == Amal Alamuddin was born in Beirut, Lebanon.