Do Arab Men Hate Women?

"Why do they hate us?"

With these five words in a controversial magazine article, Egyptian-American journalist @Mona Eltahawy shot to fame, unleashing a devastating critique of women's rights in the Arab world.

Are Arab or Muslim societies inherently patriarchal? And how does the narrative of Islam as sexist play into geo-politics and Western stereotypes of the Middle East?

Joining the discussion is Dr Aitemad Muhanna of the London School of Economics' Middle East Centre; self-proclaimed progressive Imam Dr Taj Hargey; and Dr Shuruq Naguib, a British-Egyptian academic from Lancaster University.