Khalil Fadl Osman

Dr. Khalil Fadl Osman is Senior Fellow and Director of the Arab Hirak Program at Demos Tunisia. He boasts career experience spanning academia, diplomacy (namely United Nations) and journalism. He worked for 15 years in different media and political affairs capacities at the UN, serving in Sudan, Iraq, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Somalia. Dr. Osman has taught at Indiana University (USA) and the American University of Kurdistan (Iraq). He has also worked for the BBC, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and Radio Canada International. Dr. Osman has a PhD in Politics from the University of Exeter. His publications include the forthcoming co-edited book Yemen at the Crossroads: Crisis and Reconstruction (Routledge, 2025) and Sectarianism in Iraq: The Making of State and Nation Since 1920 (Routledge, 2014).