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Meet George and Amal Clooney's glamorous niece, Mia Hamiyeh: she was a flower girl at the Clooneys' 2014 wedding in Venice and has since joined the couple on red carpets wearing Giambattista Valli

George Clooney and his wife Amal are no strangers to life in the limelight. But when the celebrity couple hit New York for the Clooney Foundation for Justice's The Albies in October, someone else stole the show. That person was Mia Hamiyeh, Clooney's niece. Standing almost as tall as her aunt, the young woman, who turns 23 this year, made a glamorous appearance in a red dress with a sweetheart neckline, silver heels and a gold clutch – and was almost unrecognisable from the first time she appeared in public. Back in 2015, when she was only 13, Hamiyeh joined the Clooneys on the red carpet for the premiere of Tomorrowland wearing Giambattista Valli, flats and braces on her teeth. That cheerful little girl is now following in her aunt's footsteps, working as a legal intern at the Clooney Foundation for Justice. So, what else do we know about Mia Hamiyeh? Who are her parents? Mia Hamiyeh's mum, Tala Alamuddin, is Amal Clooney's sister. Photo: @talaalamuddin/Instagram Advertisement Hamiyeh is the daughter of Amal Clooney's sister Tala Alamuddin and her ex-husband, Nagi Hamiyeh. She was born in 2002. Her mother is a style influencer and the founder of Totally Tala, a Singapore-based fashion label that focuses on sustainability and ethical production. Her father is a businessman. She has three siblings – twins Jad and Sari Hamiyeh, and another brother whose name has not been disclosed. Alamuddin married Italian businessman Nico Le Tallec after her split from Hamiyeh. What are her educational qualifications? Mia Hamiyeh is training to be a lawyer. Photo: @ericdavidbeauty/Instagram Mia Hamiyeh has a law degree from SOAS University of London and is currently qualifying as a lawyer through Leeds' BPP Law School. Before working with the Clooney Foundation for Justice, she was a Junior Fellow at the Center for International Governance and Dispute Resolution at King's College London, served as a research and teaching assistant at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and was a legal intern at the United Nations' Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). She was the flower girl at the Clooneys' wedding George and Amal Clooney on their wedding day in Italy, in 2014. Photo: @ George and Amal Clooney's 2014 Italian wedding was a star-studded affair, and on the big day, Hamiyeh was her aunt's flower girl. She was also tasked with helping the bride with the train of her Oscar de la Renta wedding dress, but given how heavy it was, she needed a hand from her mum.