The course mainly helped me in laying a foundation around my understanding of media law which is essential to tackle any issue that we might find within the media itself. Be it qatari law or law within western media, we were able to look into most of it and also understand the reasoning behind most of them and then see examples of it through real case files in order to understand those laws even better. From copyright to data security for journalists and even defamation cases which all allowed us to grasp at the concept of how journalists work and what are the best ways for them to report their stories and what they need to avoid. The importance of understanding these concepts was to also understand the perspectives of the journalists because that was a perspective I was lacking in my research so far. I had studied about politicians and their intentions and how they did what they did but the other side were the journalists and thus this course helped highlight their role as well. Another significant topic we studied in this course was on the question of free expression and media freedom and how it then relates to law itself. Since my research is mainly based on the issues of media being bought off by political parties and having lost their freedom thus losing their free expression, this topic was of great importance for me to have studied in the course. We were able to therefore understand that although freedom of expression is important there are several laws attached to it and that freedom of expression within media also comes at a great cost to several journalists and isn’t as simple as we make it out to be. Nonetheless, it was significant to learn the bounds of freedom of expression and in what ways can it be done without violating any laws.