He is a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, the recipient of the 2008 SIUC Excellence in Commitment Graduate Student Research Award, a research grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation. Khalil is a leading expert on Arab television production and programming with more than fifteen years of professional experience as director, executive producer and consultant with major Arab satellite channels. He is author of a monograph on Arab satellite entertainment television and co-author of Arab Television Industries (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). Khalil’s scholarly interests revolve specifically around Arab youth, alternative media and global media industries. He is currently working on a book project examining youth-generated media in the Arab world.