March 15, 2012 | Pulitzer Center
Surfing helped transform American youth culture in the 1960s. Now, in places like Morocco and Gaza, it is introducing a new generation of Arab youth to an alternative vision of Western culture, one based on a love of the ocean and the many joys it can provide. Australians wandering down from Europe introduced surfing to Morocco in the late 1960s. Since then the sport has exploded in popularity.