Small farmers and the revolution in Egypt: the forgotten actors
This paper analyses the relationship between small farmers and revolution in Egypt by describing their role in the current uprising and redefining the track and stages of the revolution’s development, as well as evaluating the historical relationship between small farmer uprisings and the urban elite. he paper provides ahistorical reading of the peasant uprisings and the way in which the urban eliteshave ignored their struggles. The study confirms that revolution is not a moment but a long process socially constructed and the peasant uprising in 1997 was the first spark of a protest wave that culminated in January 2011.
Title of publication: Contemporary Arab Affairs
Volume: 8
Issue: 2
Page range: 198 – 211
Organization: Department of Rural Sociology, Faculty of Agriculture, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt
Year: 2015
Country/ies: Egypt
Geographical coverage: Near East and North Africa
Type: Journal article
Full text available at: http://www.academia.edu/11710852/Small_farmers_and_the_revolution_in_Egypt_the_forgotten_actors
Content language: English