Shaykh Hilal (Arabic: الشيخ هلال, romanized: al-Shaykh Hilāl) is a village in central Syria administratively part of al-Saan Subdistrict of the Salamiyah District of the Hama Governorate.

[2] According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Shaykh Hilal had a population of 834 in the 2004 census.

[3] Around 1995 around half of the village's 1,200 inhabitants had emigrated due to the government ban that year on farming in the desert in its effort to counter desertification.

[5] The houses are considered a heritage site by Syria and in 2008–2009 the Friends of Salamiyah Association and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation commenced a project to restore the domes.

The project aimed to improve the livelihoods of the villagers and create new streams of income from heritage tourism.