The book offers an account of Egypt's legislative achievements and shortcomings in light of its international obligation to eliminate gender discrimination resulting from the Women's Convention and proposes de jure and de facto reforms to improve Egypt's implementation efforts.

Nora Salem, Ph.D. (2016), University of Jena, is Assistant Professor of Public International Law, Human Rights Law, and Egyptian Law at the American University in Cairo and former Research Fellow of Fordham Law School. She worked in various capacities at the United Nations Secretariat in New York (2013-2016).