In addition to her deputy editor responsibilities, she writes and comments regularly on world affairs, Middle East politics and business.

[2] On the 7 October 2022, Khalaf published an exclusive interview she secured as the FT editor with the Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, in which he explained his future plans for Twitter, Tesla and his SpaceX project.

[7] In May 2023, The New York Times reported that Khalaf prevented the publishing of an FT article covering sexual misconduct allegations against Nick Cohen.

[11][better source needed] In 2013, she received, with her Financial Times colleagues Abigail Fielding-Smith, Camilla Hall and Simeon Kerr, the Foreign Press Association media award Print and Web Feature Story of the Year for Qatar: From Emirate to Empire.

[12] Khalaf is quoted in Jordan Belfort's The Wolf of Wall Street; "The press onslaught had started in 1991, when an insolent reporter from Forbes magazine, Roula Khalaf, coined me as a twisted version of Robin Hood, who robs from the rich and gives to himself and his merry band of brokers.