This guide offers reporters the tools to navigate the topic of religious persecution at home and abroad, offering background, resources, tips, suggestions and expert sources for your next story.

Maajid Nawaz is co-founder of the Quilliam Foundation, an international think tank based in London that focuses on integration, citizenship and identity, religious freedom, extremism and immigration. He is the author of Radical: My Journey Out of Islamic Extremism. He gave a TED Talk on fighting religious extremism.

Febe Armanios is an associate professor of history at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vt. She is conducting a research project, “Coptic Charismatic Renewal in Egypt: A Modern History,” through a grant from the University of Southern California’s Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative. She specializes in Coptic Christians in the Middle East.