Khalil Rashow or Xelîl Cindî Reşo (born 1952) is a contemporary Kurdish academic, writer and researcher. He was born in the village of in district of Sheikhan in Mosul province in northern Iraq. From 1970 to 1974 he studied at the department of Kurdish language and literature of University of Baghdad. He moved to Czechoslovakia in 1986 and received his PhD from the Oriental Institute of Charles University in Prague in 1991. From 1985 to 1991 he was the head of Society of Kurdish Students in Europe (KSSE). From 2013 to 2015, he served as Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq to Vietnam.