00801pab a2200133 454500008004000000100001700040245007100057260000900128300001300137362001000150520045800160650001500618773003400633180718b2011   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aAhmad, Irfan  aThe categorical revolution: Democratic uprising in the Middle East  c2011  ap.30-35.  a5 Nov  aThe protests ovefr the past year across the 'middle east' are perhaps saying that the region first and foremost belongs to its people and that the categories of "oil-rich", "oil-less" and "main route" are at best exciting materials for a historian's archive. While unfolding this "categorical revolution", this article explodies two key myths: (1) that of the terminology of the middle east, and (2) Islam's incompatibility with democracy. - Reproduced.  aRevolution  aEconomic and Political Weekly