On Sept 20, 2011, the College of Liberal Studies held a screening of the OU student film Women Behind Bars: The Voices of Oklahoma's Incarcerated Women and their Children. The Screening was followed by a discussion panel. "Women Behind Bars” was directed, produced and edited by Amina Benalioulhaj,…
“Women Behind Bars” was directed, produced and edited by Amina Benalioulhaj, a recent graduate of OU’s Women and Gender Studies Program. Benalioulhaj enrolled in Dr. Susan Sharp’s course “Women, Girls and Crime” in the spring 2010 semester. Sharp, a professor in the OU Department of Sociology and a College of Liberal Studies faculty fellow, has researched Oklahoma’s incarcerated women for more than 10 years. Her work inspired Benalioulhaj to pursue the film.