In 2009, Khalaf won “The Peace Through Media Award” of the International Media Awards “in recognition of her high standards of reporting and the quality of her news analysis.[5] In 2011, she was short-listed for the Foreign Reporter of the Year Category of the Press Awards[6] In 2012, she was shortlisted for the One World Media Awards for her article 'The Muslim Sisterhood.'[7] In 2013, she won, 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.”[8]