Kamal Khalil (Arabic: كمال خليل, IPA: [kæˈmæːl xæˈliːl]) is an Egyptian engineer and labour activist.

He is a leading member of the Revolutionary Socialists,[2] a representative of the Workers Democratic Party[3] and the founder[4] and director of the Center for Socialist Studies in Cairo.

[5] He is a critic of the social democrats, youth parties and the Muslim Brotherhood in the post-Mubarak Egypt.

"[8] Prior to the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, Khalil had been arrested many times.

In 2003, he was arrested by the State Security Investigations Service (SSI) and placed in solitary confinement for his role in the anti-war movement, causing the Stop the War Coalition in Britain to demonstrate outside the Egyptian Embassy in London.