00870pab a2200169 454500 180718b2011 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Ahmad, Irfan The categorical revolution: Democratic uprising in the Middle East 2011 p.30-35. 5 Nov The 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. Revolution Economic and Political Weekly N 94027 94027 94027 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 46, Issue no: 44-45 AR94487 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR