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.