Khalil Rashow or Xelîl Cindî Reşo (born 1952) is a contemporary Kurdish academic, writer and researcher.
He was born in the village of Mam Rasha 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 1999 to 2005 he has conducted research in cooperation with Professor Kreyenbroek on Yazidi religious beliefs.