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Hoda Kotb: Amazing Life of A News Anchor
 Hoda
Kotb is an American television news anchor and TV host known as the co-host of
the fourth hour of Today with Kathie Lee Gifford. She won a Daytime Emmy Award
in 2010 as part of The Today Show team. She is also a correspondent for NBC's
Dateline NBC. She features in Top 100 hottest women Maxim 2013 list.
Kotb was born in Norman, Oklahoma, but grew up in Morgantown, West Virginia. Her
parents are from Egypt. Kotb and her family lived in Egypt for a year, as well
as in Nigeria. In Arabic, the name "Hoda" means "guidance", and is very popular
among Arab women. The surname "Kotb" means "pole", as in North or South Pole,
and is a common surname among Egyptians. For a period during her career, she
spelled her surname Kotbe to aid in pronunciation; she has since reverted to
using the original form, Kotb.
In 1986, she graduated from Virginia Tech with a Bachelor of Arts degree in
broadcast journalism. She is a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority. She was
the keynote speaker at her alma mater for the 2008 Virginia Tech graduation,
where she played Metallica's "Enter Sandman" over her iPod. In 2010, she was
elected to a three-year term to the Virginia Tech Alumni Association Board of
Directors.
Hoda wrote a New York Times Bestselling Book, Hoda: How I Survived War Zones,
Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee, which was released in hardcover in October
2010.
 On January 15, 2013, she released her second book Ten Years Later: Six People
Who Faced Adversity and Transformed Their Lives, in which she chronicles six
stories by identifying a game-changing event in her subjects lives and then
revisiting those lives a decade later.
Kotb appears on the fourth hour of the Today Show. She co-hosts along with
Kathie Lee Gifford. She has also been a correspondent for Dateline NBC since
1998.
Hoda Kotb appearances on TV Shows
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1986: CBS News - news assistant Cairo, Egypt
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19861989: Morning anchor and general assignment reporter WQAD-TV, ABC
Moline, Illinois; and anchor WXVT-TV, CBS Greenville and Greenwood,
Mississippi
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19891991: Weekend anchor and reporter WINK-TV Fort Myers, Florida
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19921998: Anchor and reporter WWL-TV, CBS New Orleans, Louisiana
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1998present: Dateline NBC correspondent
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20042007: Host of the weekly syndicated series Your Total Health
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2007present: Co-host of the fourth hour of Today with Kathie Lee Gifford
 In her college years at Virginia Tech, Kotb was a member of Delta Delta Delta
Women's Fraternity, Beta Nu Chapter. In 2005, Kotb married former University of
New Orleans tennis coach Burzis Kanga. The marriage ended in divorce two years
later.
In March 2007, Kotb underwent a mastectomy and reconstructive surgery for breast
cancer, and has since become an advocate for breast cancer awareness. Kotb
allowed Today Show cameras to follow her throughout her cancer battle. After she
was announced cancer-free, her story was documented on the show.
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Dated 06 November 2013
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