She was sworn into prime minister Hesham Qandil's cabinet on 2 August 2012, following the Egyptian revolution that deposed president Hosni Mubarak.
[3] Khalil obtained her PhD from the Cairo University, where her thesis was titled "The problems of Egyptian society following the Second World War.
"[4] Khalil served as a member of a fact-finding committee which was mandated to investigate the violent events that occurred during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
[4] The Ministry of Social Affairs and Insurance was eliminated six years prior to the Egyptian revolution of 2011,[4] but was reinstated during the interim government[2] of the then prime minister Kamal Ganzouri.
However, Khalil said that they did not submit formal requests, because they feared that due to "the number of its members, sources of funding and unlawful objectives would be exposed.