Some reporters thought the attacks didn't have a religion angle. "Don't worry," my editor said. "They'll come around. You just go and don't worry about that."
Is it possible to encourage religious freedom in Egypt - in the absence of well developed constitutional protections - without a single group coming to dominate the public square?
Yasser Khalil, a 38-year-old researcher and journalist, joined the January 25 revolution in Cairo. This summer he flew 5000 miles to hear new ideas about religious equality to take back to Egypt.
The Media Project sat down recently for an extended interview with one of the United States' leading experts on the issue of international religious freedom.