Love and Light SURVIVING CANCER THROUGH
MEET THE REAL MIRAL KOTB
By Kelly Cullen
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hen you first come face-to-face with Miral Kotb, a few words come to mind… Sweet. Petite. Talented. But fighter? Warrior? Survivor? As Kotb excitedly talks about the show she recently launched, iLuminate at the STRAT Theater, you realize you have only scratched the surface of the story behind the new show lighting up the Las Vegas Strip and its inspirational creator. Growing up, Kotb, whose parents emigrated from Cairo, took after her father, a performer in Egypt’s national dance troupe. A natural at nearly everything she touches, Kotb danced throughout her childhood and beyond, even continued training when she landed at Columbia University to study coding, a hobby that Kotb feel in love with after her parents enrolled her in a computer coding class at an early age. Her mother, who is a treasurer, gave Kotb her passion for mathematics and engineering which advanced her love of technology. Kotb landed a corporate job at Bloomberg and it was during that time when she received her first cancer diagnosis and faced the possibility of losing her leg.
