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(alternate spellings include Houda and

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). Notable people with that name include:

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Hoda Abdel-Hamid Hoda Abdel Hamid ( ar, هدى عبد الحميد) is a war correspondent with Al Jazeera. Biography She was hired as the Iraq correspondent and then became a Senior International correspondent. Since joining AJE, Hoda has covered major stories ar ...

, a war correspondent with Al Jazeera * Hoda Ablan (born 1971), Yemeni poet *

Hoda Afshar Hoda Afshar (born 1983) is an Iranian documentary photographer who is based in Melbourne. She is known for her 2018 prize-winning portrait of Kurdish-Iranian refugee Behrouz Boochani, who suffered a long imprisonment in the Manus Island detentio ...

Iranian-Australian photographer * Hoda Ali, British human rights activist *

Hoda Barakat Hoda Barakat ( ar, هدى بركات) (born 1952) is an award-winning Lebanese novelist. She lived most of her early life in Beirut before moving to Paris, where she now resides. She has published six novels, two plays, a book of short stories, a ...

(born 1952), Lebanese writer *

Hoda ElMaraghy Hoda ElMaraghy ( ar, هدى المراغي; born 1945) is an Egyptian-Canadian professor and director of the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) Center at the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario which she founded together with her husband ...

(born 1945), Canadian professor * Hoda Elsadda, a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cairo University *

Hoda Kotb Hoda Kotb ( ; arz, هدى قطب, ''Hudā Quṭb''; ; born August 9, 1964) is an American broadcast journalist, television personality, and author. She is a main co-anchor of the NBC News morning show ''Today'' and co-host of its entertainment ...

(born 1964), American journalist *

Hoda Lattaf Hoda Lattaf (born 31 August 1978 in Bordeaux) is a French football player who plays in attack. She currently plays for Montpellier in the top French league and is one of the leading players for the France national team, and was seen as the pref ...

(born 1978), French football player * Hoda Mahmoudi, Iranian-American sociologist *

Hoda Muthana Hoda Muthana (born October 28, 1994) is a U.S.-born Yemeni woman who emigrated from the United States to Syria to join ISIS in November 2014. She surrendered in January 2019 to coalition forces fighting ISIS in Syria and has been denied access ba ...

(born 1994), American Islamist * Hoda Saad (born 1981), Moroccan singer-songwriter

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Hoda Saber , birth_date = , birth_place = Tehran, Iran , death_date = , death_place = Tehran, Iran , education = , occupation = Intellectual, Economic Scholar and Social Activist, Journalist , alias = , title = , family = ...

(1959–2011), an Iranian intellectual, economic scholar, journalist and social-political activist

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