Amal (أمل) is from the Arabic amal — "hope, aspiration." **Amal Clooney (born Amal Alamuddin, 1978)** — **Lebanese-British barrister specializing in international law, human rights, and criminal justice; a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers since 2010; counsel before the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, and the European Court of Human Rights**. **Has represented Yulia Tymoshenko (former Ukrainian PM), Julian Assange, Mohamed Nasheed (former Maldives president), Maria Ressa (Filipina Nobel Peace laureate), and Nadia Murad (Yazidi survivor of ISIS captivity and Nobel Peace laureate)**. **Visiting professor at Columbia Law School**. **Co-founded the Clooney Foundation for Justice with husband George Clooney in 2016 — supporting trial monitors in 40+ countries**. **Special Adviser to the UK Special Envoy on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict (2019)**. **The Lebanese poet Amal Donqol** (1940-1983) was male. **Amal Hijazi** — Lebanese pop star.
Subject of countless legal and human-rights profiles.
Amal reduces to eight — the number of hope.