Have you ever used writing as an outlet? Today on Focus, we examined stereotypes about Arab women with Professor Miriam Cooke, who studies how Islamic women empower themselves through writing. Then, Mariam Sobh, a native of Champaign and the founder of the fashion blog Hijab Trendz joins the program. 

Guest: Michael Hamilton Morgan.

Today, relations between Islam and the West have been strained by mistrust and misunderstanding; yet there was a time when Muslim intellectual achievement was the envy of the world. Today on Focus we're joined by author Michael Hamilton Morgan to explore the ways that Muslim mathematicians, inventors, and astronomers helped set the stage for the European Renaissance, only to be drowned out and forgotten by their successors.