Hoda Kotb

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Kotb in 2010, photo by Prphotos

Place of Birth: Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.

Date of Birth: August 9, 1964

Ethnicity: Egyptian

Hoda Kotb is an American broadcast journalist, television personality, and author. She has co-hosted the show Today since 2018.

Her parents, Sameha Mahmoud Kotb and Abdel Kader Kotb, were born in Egypt, with her father, a fossil energy specialist, being from Cairo. Her name, Hoda, is Arabic, and means guidance, while her surname is a common Egyptian surname meaning pole, as in North or South Pole. She was raised in Egypt, Nigeria, West Virginia, Virginia, and Louisiana.

Hoda has two children, who are adopted.

Hoda’s paternal grandfather was named Mohamed Katb Eissa.

Hoda’s paternal grandmother was named Sekina Abdel Kader Mohamed.

Kotb in 2009, Rena Schild / Shutterstock.com

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70 Responses

  1. alexis vang says:

    Ancient Egyptians were black. This has been denied and the various pharaoahs whitened up for years. Particularly, this can be found in hollywood films. As time went on in Egypt other races settled and intermixed as there was no racism in the ancient world.

  2. Rabco says:

    She may have some egyptian in her ancestry but to me she looks a combination of white, american indian, black. I think she claims egyptian but I don’t see how she was born in Oklahoma, a big American Indian state, and be only from egypt.

    • Menphis says:

      Hoda Kotb’s parents are native of Egypt but also lived in Nigeria for a time before settling in the U.S. She is more than like a mix of the localized pop. of Egypt (Amazigh, Arab, Turk, and Sub Saharan) as well as European.

  3. Mike says:

    None of you know what you are talking about.

    • Fuzzybear says:

      To mike:well if I have said something wrong,I welcome you at anytime to show me.Don’t just say something like that,and just walk off.If you know more than I do,show me

  4. inquisitive says:

    Touche fuzzybear – you’re a wealth of information and interesting to boot…thanks!

  5. Leslie says:

    Egyptian is not a race or ethnic… Egypt is in Africa. The original Egyptians were black – black Africa. Today’s Egyptians are mixed people of Black, Arab, etc.

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