“We will demonstrate to Americans that this is the kind of journalism they can appreciate”, Al Jazeera America spokesman Stan Collender told ResetDOC, praising the new adventure the Qatari network has embarked upon in the United States, buying Al Gore’s Current TV. However, while Qatar and its media are opening out to the world and to the West, there are still many challenges posed to freedom of the media and of expression in the small Gulf emirate. Is anyone trying to resolve the matter? And how? We asked Jan Keulen, director of the Doha Centre for Media Freedom.