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Police are determining if the murder in his own apartment of a gay Egyptian man who moved to Australia to avoid persecution may have been a hate crime.

How will the revolutionary fervor playing out across the Middle East play out for the region’s gay citizens. An expert gives his optimistic opinion that things actually will get better for us, exclusively for EDGE.

Egypt kept most of the 30-mile coastline off the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh closed to swimmers on Tuesday after a spate of shark attacks killed one European tourist and maimed several others in the past week.

In the 1960s, rising waters from a new dam threatened to submerge the temples and monuments of Nubia, the ancient home of black pharaohs in Egypt’s far south. To preserve them, the antiquities were dismantled, moved and reconstructed.

Today, it’s a sprawl of luxury vacation homes where Egypt’s wealthy play on the white beaches of the Mediterranean coast. But 2,000 years ago, this was a thriving Greco-Roman port city, boasting villas of merchants grown rich on the wheat and olive trade.

Egypt will apply for the first Internet domain written in Arabic, its information technology minister said Sunday at a conference grouping Yahoo’s co-founder and others to discuss boosting online access in emerging nations. Read more...

A newspaper in Egypt faces lawsuits and banning after claiming that several actors were arrested in a police action against a gay prostitution ring.