The judicial resolution of the tension between human rights treaties and shari’a law reservations under the constitution of 2014

Attending this LLM at the American University in Cairo has been a truly life-changing experience for me. This experience would have been unattainable without the support and guidance I was privileged to receive from many people. I would like to pay my sincere gratitude to the Yousef Jameel GAPP Public Leadership Fellowship for financing my degree and for surrounding the learning process with a vivid atmosphere which not only motivated me throughout the degree, but also allowed me to find joy in education. I wish to express the deepest gratefulness to my supervisor Chair Professor Hany El-Sayed whose immense knowledge, support and guidance helped me create the best possible version of this thesis. I am also grateful to the rest of my thesis committee: Professor Mai Taha and Professor Thomas Skouteris for their insightful comments. I wish to extend my appreciation to Professor Diana Van Bogaert, the heart and soul of the law department, for her continuous support throughout the whole degree. I am wholeheartedly indebted to my family and specially my brother, Muhammed who has been a very rich source of legal knowledge and intelligent comments, and Ela Goksun for providing a constructive linguistic feedback. I am also thankful to my fellow colleagues: Amira Hetaba and Claire McNally with whom I have the most remarkable memories at AUC.