MER Article Small Farmer Uprisings and Rural Neglect in Egypt and Tunisia “We should make it up to the peasants,” Muhsin al-Batran, erstwhile head of the economic affairs unit in Egypt’s Ministry of Agriculture, told the official daily al-Ahram two months after the toppling of Husni Mubarak in 2011. “Make it up” -- why? And what is it that needs to be made up? Habib Ayeb, Ray Bush • 14 min read
