Simon Khalil

Global Creative Director, Arab News.

[Peter Thomsen @peterthomsenx]

AI amplifies creativity.
It doesn’t replace it.

Storytelling is only as good as the concept humans create.

Watch or listen to the full episode with Simon Khalil here:
YouTube: https://t.co/N9Tt6y3IDh
Spotify: https://t.co/mDa53lZWAx

[Simon Khalil @simonkhalil75]

Celebrating 50 years of @arabnews #ArabNews50

[Arab News @arabnews]

#ArabNews50: As we mark our 50th anniversary, we recount the moments that changed the region over the past five decades and how we covered them | More: https://t.co/SIz9a2dsnF

[Arab News @arabnews]

#ArabNews50: As we mark our 50th anniversary, we recount the moments that changed the region over the past five decades and how we covered them | More: https://t.co/SIz9a2dsnF

[Arab News @arabnews]

Arab News' "Opinion Year-End Collection," a special end-of-2023 commentary series, won the Award of Excellence at the 54th Society for News Design competition https://t.co/TJ9HQLPfTw

[Arab News @arabnews]

#WhyRiyadh: We celebrate this Saudi National Day by supporting Saudi Arabia’s Expo2030 bid to be held in #Riyadh, and we invite everyone to back the bid with us | https://t.co/eSlQidFwtw

#RiyadhExpo2030 #SaudiNationalDay2023

[Simon Khalil @simonkhalil75]

Arab News’s latest latest guest on @FranklySpeaking is #ChatGPT! Check out the full interview

[Arab News @arabnews]

#FranklySpeaking: Our guest for this week is @OpenAI’s #ChatGPT, who apparently is delighted to be interviewed by @arabnews | Full episode: https://t.co/8yXvMbTkpf

[Simon Khalil @simonkhalil75]

Very honoured to be a judge in this year’s @SPDtweets #SPD57 competition. Can’t wait to see all the inspiring creativity out there in this year’s entries! #designers #creativity #spd #designawards #magazinedesign #newspaperdesign

[Simon Khalil @simonkhalil75]

Play our @arabnews retro F1 game and see how fast you can get round the Jeddah circuit #SaudiArabianGP #Formula1 #JeddahCornicheCircuit

[Arab News @arabnews]

#FormulaOne: Play our F1 Grand Prix game and try to stay on track: https://t.co/qdurbPi2nz

#SaudiArabianGP

[Simon Khalil @simonkhalil75]

Arab News has won Silver in the Asian Newspaper Awards Tokyo Olympics competition @tksajeev - Best Sport Pages. Big thanks to @chuangraphics for the brilliant illustrations. Congratulations to the whole @arabnews team!

#tokyoolympics
#illustration
#sportpagedesign

[Simon Khalil @simonkhalil75]

Mapping over 1,500 sq km of the northern Red Sea region, #Saudi entities and world-renowned oceanographers, researchers, and scientists team up with @NEOM and @OceanX to discover hidden gems of the Red Sea
@arabnews

#illustration
#interactive

https://t.co/eGuc96qlXm

[Simon Khalil @simonkhalil75]

Mapping over 1,500 sq km of the northern Red Sea region, #Saudi entities and world-renowned oceanographers, researchers, and scientists team up with @NEOM and @OceanX to discover hidden gems of the Red Sea
@arabnews

#illustration
#interactive

https://t.co/eGuc96qlXm

[Simon Khalil @simonkhalil75]

A look at today’s ‘Saudi National
Day 2021’ animation. Brilliantly illustrated by the incredibly talented The Sporting Press. Thanks again for all your patience on this one mate!

https://t.co/tIv7tFUTTY

@arabnews
#SaudiNationalDay

[Simon Khalil @simonkhalil75]

A look at today’s ‘Saudi National
Day 2021’ special edition cover wrap and screensavers. Brilliantly illustrated by the incredibly talented The Sporting Press. Thanks again for all your patience on this one mate!

https://t.co/tIv7tFUTTY

@arabnews
#saudinationalday

[Simon Khalil @simonkhalil75]

Happy #SaudiNationalDay from Arab News — join us and Diriyah Gate Development Authority on a journey through the past, present and future of #Diriyah, the Kingdom’s birthplace!

https://t.co/tIv7tFUTTY

[Arab News @arabnews]

@DGDA_SA #WATCH: This #SaudiNationalDay, join us on a journey through time to explore the Kingdom’s birthplace | Visit our Deep Dive: #Diriyah — Past, Present and Future: https://t.co/ixiarSTFLL

@DGDA_SA #SaudiNationalDay91

[Simon Khalil @simonkhalil75]

A look at our "9/11: 20 years later" special coverage and edition, showing how the events unfolded that day and how they impacted the world.

@arabnews
#editorialdesign
#newspaperdesign
#graphicdesign
#infographics
#typography
#newsdesign
#featuresdesign
#digitaldesign
#911

[Simon Khalil @simonkhalil75]

A look at our "9/11: 20 years later" special coverage and edition, showing how the events unfolded that day and how they impacted the world.

@arabnews
#editorialdesign
#newspaperdesign
#graphicdesign
#infographics
#typography
#newsdesign
#featuresdesign
#digitaldesign
#911

[Simon Khalil @simonkhalil75]

@arabnews has won bronze for Newspaper Front Page Design at the @WANIFRA_Asia Media Awards. Congratulations to the team and big thanks to Sébastien Thibault / @AnnaGoodsonMgmt for the brilliant illustration
#newspaperdesign
#designawards
#editorialdesign
#illustration

[Simon Khalil @simonkhalil75]

Check out our @arabnews Tokyo Olympics coverage. Illustrations by @ChuanGraphics https://t.co/TbaqGN2B3n #TokyoOlympics #Tokyo2020 #saudiolympicteam

[Simon Khalil @simonkhalil75]

@ChuanGraphics @arabnews Brilliant work! Great working with you

[Simon Khalil @simonkhalil75]

Amazing work by the brilliant @ChuanGraphics to kick off our Olympics coverage https://t.co/TbaqGN2B3n

[Nick @ChuanGraphics]

I am delighted to announce that I have produced a series of Saudi Arabia athletes social graphics for @arabnews on the upcoming Tokyo Olympics 2020

It was a pleasure to work with @simonkhalil75 and his team 🎨👊

Website: https://t.co/OhqgM0yoUN

Project: https://t.co/BZzr1gY5VY