(BEIRUT, LEBANON) — A London ceremony celebrating the wedding of Amal Alamuddin and George Clooney will welcome three Lebanese politicians on October 23.
Progressive Socialist Party Leader Walid Jumblatt, Environment Minister Mohammad Machnouk, and MP Marwan Hamade will fly to England for a dinner hosted by Alamuddin’s father Ramzi.
Previously, Jumblatt voiced positive opinions of Alamuddin and Clooney’s marriage, expressing hope they would set an example of openness for the Druze community.
“Tell me when George Clooney will be coming to Lebanon so I can greet him in Moukhtara,” he wrote, referring to his ancestral home in the Chouf mountains. “I will bring a delegation of Druze sheikhs.”
Ramzi Alamuddin is a retired professor of business studies at the American University of Beirut and comes from a prominent Lebanese Druze family. Amal’s mother, Bariaa Alamuddin, is the foreign editor of the Pan-Arab newspaper al-Hayat.
During the 1980s, when the Lebanese Civil War was in full scale, Alamuddin’s family left Lebanon for London and settled in Buckinghamshire, England.
Amal Alamuddin is a graduate of the University of Oxford and the New York University School of Law.
The Lebanese-British human rights lawyer Alamuddin, 36, and Hollywood actor Clooney, 53, dominated world headlines last weekend in a lavish Venice affair that included a wedding ceremony at one of the famed city’s luxurious hotels, the Aman Canal Grande.