I'm immensely proud': Amal Clooney's mother makes rare comment about her daughter and son-in-law George as she gushes about their charitable work

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By BRYONY JEWELL FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 11:48 EST, 13 November 2020 | UPDATED: 12:56 EST, 13 November 2020

   

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Amal Clooney's mother Baria Alamuddin has made a very rare comment about her daughter and son-in-law to praise their charitable work.
The political journalist gushed that she was 'immensely proud' of Amal and George's involvement in several good causes and activism.
Speaking with HELLO! after the couple made the magazine's Kind List, the proud mum added that kindness was especially needed in the current global climate. 
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'Immensely proud': Amal Clooney's mother  Baria Alamuddin has made a rare comment about her daughter and son-in-law George as she gushed about their charitable work (pictured in 2017)
Baria said: 'I am immensely proud of all Amal and George's charitable work, in too many fields to do justice to here. 


'Particularly deserving of mention is George's decades of activism on behalf of Sudanese people; along with Amal's pro bono activities on behalf of journalists around the world.  










'I passionately believe that all acts of human kindness serve to make this world a less severe and forbidding place; and in the current global climate of intolerance, xenophobia and demonization we are in desperate need of every drop of kindness we can get.'
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Kind: The couple have donated millions to worthy causes from personal funds and the Clooney Foundation for Justice over recent years (pictured in May 2019)
The journalist also highlighted Amal's work with Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad to support Iraqi victims of genocide and sexual violence.
Amal joins a group of stars, royals and influential people around the world are being celebrated as part of HELLO!’s first Kindness Summit, a virtual day-long event which will inspire and spread kindness, building on their #HelloToKindness campaign.
The Clooneys have been very generous with their money over the years, with the couple recently donating money to their local theatre The Mill at Sonning Theatre, in Berkshire.
While in April they also gave more than £800,000 to charities helping the NHS, Lebanese food banks and the Los Angeles Mayor’s Fund.
Amal and George also founded the Clooney Foundation for Justice which advocates for justice through accountability for human rights abuses around the world.
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Family: Baria, who is a political journalist, does not often speak about her famous daughter and son-in-law (pictured together in 2017)
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After a white nationalist gathering in Charlottesville in 2017, the Foundation gave a $1million grant to the Southern Poverty Law Center, reports SPLC news. 
Amal's mother Baria has rarely spoken about her family, however she did discuss her daughter in a feature piece with Vogue back in 2018. 
During the interview Baria revealed that doctors initially told her to abort her pregnancy due to a placenta condition but she ignored their advice after having dreams of her future daughter's face.  
'My pregnancy with Amal was a rather difficult one,' Baria said, adding that she spent two months in hospital with placenta previa. 
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Mother and daughter: Activist and lawyer Amal is Baria's second daughter with husband Ramzi Alamuddin (pictured in 2015)
'At some point I was told that I should lose the baby. I said no. I kept on having these dreams in which I would see her face and how she was going to look.' 
Baria said Amal - who now has three-year-old twins Ella and Alexander with husband George - was born 'exactly' as she saw her in her dreams. 
Amal, who was born in Beirut, is Baria's second daughter with husband Ramzi. They named her Amal, which means 'Hope' in Arabic, given she was born during a pause in Lebanon's civil war. 
The Alamuddins were always travelling around given Baria's job as a journalist and Ramzi's career as vice president of the Universal Federation of Travel Agents' Association, which consults with the United Nations. 
When Amal was young the family moved to London where she excelled at school.
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I didn't know her father was in the travel industry. I thought he was a professor.

Yes he was a professor but at the same time he owns a travel agency.

He was - professor of business studies at the American University in Beirut. He was also

involved with Lebanon's airline - later Middle East Airlines. But what the history of that is I'm

not sure. Pretty sure the Lebanese War must have affected that.

I think it was his mother who was one of the first women to get a degree too

Thanks for the info. I find what I know of Amal's family a bit confusing.

I know a little bit about Amal's family because I understand arabic and I watched all Baria alamuddin's interviews so it's Baria's mother who got the degree -not the first woman but among the first women to do so- and she's Jordanian-Palestinian btw.
Amal's father as stated by Baria was Vice President at the World Tourism Organization, a professor of buisness studies at the AUB, and used to run (IDK if still) his own tourism agency. 
Besides this, from her interviews you understand that for her joining the Alamuddin Family is a thing because they have a good reputation in Lebanon for being well educated and obviously rich.
In her interviews she also explained how George and Amal met, the proposal that was surprising to all of them ( and it is confusing because she litterally says that it was on George's birthday and Amal was teaching at Haravrd and taht before going Baria asked her daughter to avoid paparazzi... because as she said their family is conservative ), how George loves lebanese food the twins too, she praises George for being the perfect husband to her daughter and for being open and understanding to their culture and she always insist on the fact that Amal is first and before anything else a lebanese so yeah that's a sum up I hope it helps you.

Thanks Lilia. (That's such a beautiful name!) It's interesting to get Baria's viewpoint. I find it ironic that she told Amal to avoid paparazzi and now she's married the best known movie star in the world and Baria's fine with it.

I don't know if Baria is fine with it, but maybe has made her peace with it?  And her attitude (older generation) may not reflect Amal's attitude.

Mm, I'd think that George is their guardian on all of that stuff - and Baria knows all about the

media given that she's part of it on both sides of the aisle as it were! And some things were

obviously a shock - but it has worked to Amal's advantage because they've turned it around
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and used the media to do good and support good causes whilst also suing the paps


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And the visit to the Maldives?

I think Baria while not liking papparazi , knew she wasn't going to stop Amal from marrying the man she loved.
So she had to accept the fact they come with George. Of course George being a wonderful , kind, loving and caring
helped as well.

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Mm, I'd think that George is their guardian on all of that stuff - and Baria knows all about the

media given that she's part of it on both sides of the aisle as it were!

My first thought was that Baria would know all about the media attention Amal could expect from a relationship with George since she was part of the media herself. Still seems to me that, even with the paparazzi attention, Amal got the best of the bargain.

Maybe, but not sure I could deal with the death threats because I married someone well-known
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 “But that whole side—invasions of privacy and paparazzi, all of that—has happened because of something so happy and so important in my life.”

This is what Amal said in the Vogue interview.

PAN - I don't think the death threats come because she married George. If anything, I think he has had to deal with them because of her and the work she does - although the way things are in this country now, his political views and activities are bringing him his own share of threats, I'm sure.

I think he as a celebrity has dealt with threats even before Amal. There was that nut who showed up at his premiere and
upset Nina and Nick.
There was also the threat that he should dump Sara or else.

Annemarie - I think he dealt with a different kind of threats before he married Amal. I think the threats back then were more from random nuts and crazy fans. The threats Amal gets are from organized terror groups and hostile governments. Much scarier, IMO.

My 2 cents- I just never sensed from what I’ve read that there was much hesitation in embracing George once they got to know him. The way Lilia described the Alamuddin family it does seem they were protective of their reputation.  Baria being in the media business comes across as a real savvy businesswoman and very supportive of strong women.  I suspect after meeting George and spending some time with him Baria was won over.  I think she probably was confident enough in Amal to make the right decision.  Amal did.

Agree - and according to her cousin Tarek Miknas (who is part of huge worldwide advertising

agency based in NYC) they were all bowled over because he did all the right things - and

remember she kept her distance from him for a while.

As for the death threats (ISIS or whoever) they know only too well what a threat the Clooneys'

work in all areas is to them and what they want to achieve - in every possible way.