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Thank you. Thank you. Love you.

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(Korean) Annyeong hashimnikka?

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(Korean) Jeo-neun Anwar Dafa-Alla imnida.

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(Arabic) Assalamu'alaikum.

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(Arabic) Ismi Anwar Dafa-Alla.
Ana min Al Sudan.

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Hello, everyone.
My name is Anwar Dafa-Alla.

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I am from Sudan, as you can see.

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(Cheering)

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OK.

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I am a CEO of Afro Arab trading.

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It's a trading company.

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And a Ph.D. candidate of Chungbuk National
University in Cheongju.

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But in the last one and half year,

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this title has been attached to me.

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I am a TED volunteer translator,
and I loved it. I love it. I do.

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Translation is about sharing, right?
And sharing is caring.

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Here is my daughter, my son.
They care for each other, right?

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And sharing is beautiful, so...

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(Laughter)

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Sharing is humanness.

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What you want to do for yourself,
do it for your neighbor also, right?

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So, translating TED talks is humane.

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It's beautiful. It's for love.

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I love you all. That's it.

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(Applause)

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Thank you.

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So, TED's Open Translation Project
was launched in May 2009,

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gives the opportunity for English speaking
volunteers like me

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to subtitle into their local languages.

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Maybe in the talk, you see the subtitles.

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So this is what we do in the
Open Translation Project.

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It's one volunteer translator,
and one volunteer reviser.

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I am obsessed with two things.

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One, is spreading ideas, ok?

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The other is documentation.

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I need to document any moment in my life.

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I want to document this right now.

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(Taking a photo) (Laughter)

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It's going to be on Facebook.

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(Laughter, cheering)

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So I blogged the first talk
that I published.

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The reviser was Yasser Bahjatt.

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And then, I had more than 4,500 views.

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That was amazing for me,

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because people usually don't interact
with this vibration.

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So I made a roadmap policy for myself

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to continue
in the Open Translation Project

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that has, you know,
this responsibility, commitment

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and showing gratitude to your partner
in the translation, and not arguing.

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And express your willingness
to continue on.

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So I sum this in one email message
that's always in my draft.

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I send it to the guy I work with.

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So how do we connect as volunteer
translators together?

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We form a Facebook group and in that group
we used to communicate with each other.

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The most active translators,
that one was fascinating.

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This guy, Yasser Bahjatt,
he was the most active translator.

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And we in Sudan, our neighbor countries
or part of them,

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stereotyped the Sudanese as lazy.

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So, "most active"?

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It looks attractive for me.

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I want to join there, so I went there.

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And then, I became [one].

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(Laughter)

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When I hit 120 talks in November 2009...

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(Applause)

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Thank you.

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I had this interview on the TED blog.

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and then someone from TEDxSeoul,
Mr. Han, contacted me.

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"You live in South Korea.

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Let's contact and attend our afterparty."

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I met with them on December 21st.

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After that this was the biggest surprise
in 2009 for me.

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At that year, I received the best paper
award in a scientific conference.

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But it wasn't as nice as receiving
this message.

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We need you in California, at TEDActive.

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Audience: Wow.

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So, I went to get the US visa.

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You know, Sudan, is a blacklisted country
in American rules.

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So, I get frustrated.

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Maybe someone forgot to do his homework.

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Am I right?

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So, we get there.

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After the second try, I got the visa.

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And I went to TEDActive with
some people who are here.

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We get to the Translators Summit,
the Volunteers' Summit, I call it.

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It was really great. We shared ideas.

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This very picture, I love it,

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because embodies the connectedness

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between different people
who are passionate about spreading ideas.

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So, I came back in February.

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Continue [switching the slides], move on.

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And this is the state of today.

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(Applause)

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So, am I Superman?

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Audience: Yes.

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No!

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That wouldn't be happening without
the help of the other collaborators.

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So we have humanity here,
human connectedness here in this one.

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So I really want to give the credit
for those volunteer translators

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from everywhere.

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And here is Khalid, he's attending here.

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So, from different areas
in the Arabic world,

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we share the translators,

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and we share advice,
and we help each other.

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So, we formed the TED4Arab.com,

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and this is also an initiative
to spread TEDTalks

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in the area of the Middle East and so on,

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because the internet speed
is not that fast.

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So, I have done something.

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Am I super smart?

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(Laughter)

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We have this in common, right?

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(Applause)

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We have dotSub technology for
the translation and Google translate.

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Everyone here can do it, right?

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(Laughter, cheering)

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We need passion, right?

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We need to share.

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So, that's it.

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The family support to us
is a very important factor.

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Because, if you have a wife or a partner
that doesn't help you on this,

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you can never get away from this.

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And my wife's favorite TEDTalk is
Jamie Oliver's TEDPrize wish

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to teach every child about food.

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They care about us. My wife will care
about me and about my children, right?

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Sometimes we are selfish, as men.

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(Laughter)

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So, we need to translate
for our children, right?

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To reveal the possibility,
the opportunity, etc.

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When your child, your daughter,
goes to a computer,

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finds something in her language, right?

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To be understandable for her.

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So, in TED 2010,

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my favorite quote was:

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"Whatever you are doing,
failure is an option, fear is not."

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We are going to organize
the first TEDx in Sudan.

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That is TEDxKhartoum.

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Please cheer up for us.

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(Cheering)

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Thank you. Thank you.

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(Applause)