Glamorous British Barrister, 'I've Hooked The Man Who Hates Commitment

She may not be as well-known as her new 'fiance' George Clooney, but top barrister Amal Alamuddin is an A-lister of the English justice system.

Born in war-torn Beirut to one of Lebanon's most famous women journalists, she has spent her life scaling the heights of the legal establishment.

Despite the peak of her career coming when she represented WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during his high-profile his extradition battle, she is perhaps best known for being voted the 'hottest barrister in London'.

Miss Alamuddin, 36, is the daughter of academic Ramzi Alamuddin and noted journalist, Baria, and her family fled war-torn Beirut when she was just two years old.

She was born in the Lebanese capital and her parents later had another daughter, Tala, and two sons Samer and Ziad.

In around 1987, the family moved to Gerrard’s Cross and Baria took up a job as the foreign editor of the Lebanese newspaper Al Hayat, a role she still holds today.

Miss Alamuddin's grandfather was a government minister and one of her cousins, Rima Alamuddin, was a renowned poet who was tragically shot dead, aged only 22, by a disgruntled boyfriend while on holiday in Lebanon from her studies at Cambridge University in the 1960s.

Her mother was well known in Lebanon for her looks and a famous Lebanese poet, Said Akl, is said to have been moved to write a poem about her 'Greek Beauty' when she was in her 20s.

Miss Alamuddin's family are religious and belong to the Druze sect, an offshoot of Islam which is noted for its opposition to interfaith marriages.

Amal's father Ramzi, a retired professor of business studies at the American University of Beirut, is understood to be Druze, as was his father Khalil, who was a doctor and the Director of Beirut’s American University Hospital.

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