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| partner = Joel Schiffman | children = | parents = A.K. Kotb (father) Sameha Kotb (mother) | website = }} Hoda Kotb ( ; (アラビア語:هدى قطب) ''Hudā Quṭb'' ), born August 9, 1964,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Hoda Kotb )〕 is an American television news anchor and TV host known as the co-host of NBC's ''Today Show''s fourth hour with Kathie Lee Gifford. An Egyptian American, she won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2010 as part of The Today Show team. Kotb is also a correspondent for ''Dateline NBC''. ==Life== Kotb was born in Norman, Oklahoma,〔 but grew up in Morgantown, West Virginia and Alexandria, Virginia, where she graduated from Fort Hunt High School in 1982. She was elected Homecoming Queen〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hoda Kotb Biography - Starpulse.com )〕 and selected to speak at her graduating class' Baccalaureate service.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Image: 1982baccprogram.jpg, (1471 × 1600 px) )〕 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. (MSNBC profile )〕 In Arabic, the name "Hoda" means "guidance" and is a common name among Arab women. The surname "Kotb" (Qutb) 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.'' Kotb's father is deceased, and as of 2014, her mother works at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.〔Clarification on names added to page at request of subject's mother, February 20, 2009, to correct a tabloid's erroneous statement that Kotb's birth name was Choda Kotb.〕 In 1986, Kotb graduated from Virginia Tech with a Bachelor of Arts degree in broadcast journalism.〔 Kotb was the keynote speaker at her alma mater for the 2008 Virginia Tech graduation,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xlZ6y-s0j8 )〕 where she played Metallica's "Enter Sandman" over her iPod. In 2010, Kotb was elected to a three-year term to the Virginia Tech Alumni Association Board of Directors.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.alumni.vt.edu/board/index.html )〕 Kotb wrote a New York Times Bestselling Book, ''Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://books.simonandschuster.com/Hoda/Hoda-Kotb/9781439189498 )〕 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 life-changing event in each subject's life and then revisiting each of those six people a decade later. She has also appeared in Martina McBride's music video for ''I'm Gonna Love You Through It''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hoda Kotb」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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