Thank you for the question.
I would say that this is a tremendously sensitive issue within Egypt. There are ways to frame the issue that I think tend to set off Egyptian sensitivities in a way that is counterproductive, but there are also ways in which issues can be raised in ways that resonate very much with Egyptian politics.
Any perception that there is a favoured community within Egypt and that Christians might be a favoured community is one that sets people on edge, and Christians can sometimes be among them. A feeling that they are Egyptian citizens and have to be recognized as Egyptian citizens is one that is strong within the Egyptian Coptic community. There's a history within Egypt of foreigners having special status that was abolished more than half a century ago, but still has some historical memory within Egypt.
If the issue is framed in a way that makes it seem as if this is a minority population that needs foreign protection, that tends to set off sensitivities. However, there is a very strong nationalist flavour to Egyptian political discussions right now, so any way that this question can be framed to emphasize Egyptian citizen rights is one that has, as I say, tremendous resonance among Christians and among non-Christians as well.
The sense that these are all Egyptians and that they all have equal rights to the freedoms of the constitution, to freedom of worship, to freedom of religion, and so on and so forth is a sense that few Egyptians can disagree with.
My own sense is that the way for interested international parties to address the issue is to press very hard, certainly to ask questions over and over in terms of citizenship rights and in terms of international human rights standards that should be applied to all citizens of the planet.
That's probably the best way to push the issue.