Hoda Kotb (/ˈhoʊdə ˈkɒtbiː/ HOH-də KOT-bee; Arabic: هدى قطب Hudā Quṭb Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: , born August 9, 1964) is an American journalist, television personality and author. She is co-anchor of the NBC News morning show Today, a position to which she was promoted in 2018. She is also a correspondent for the television news magazine program Dateline NBC.
Kotb was born in Norman, Oklahoma and grew up in Morgantown, West Virginia and Alexandria, Virginia. She lived in New Orleans, Louisiana throughout the 1990s. Kotb's parents are from Egypt. Kotb and her family lived in Egypt for a year, as well as in Nigeria. She has a brother, Adel and a sister, Hala. Her mother, Sameha ("Sami"), works at the Library of Congress. In her biography, Kotb mentions that she is of Coptic ancestry, from both Lower and Upper Egypt, and details her family's experience in Egypt and as immigrants to the United States.