Complex ceremonies, which use symbolic dances to bring the participants to ecstatic trance, are held by the Aissawa in private during domestic ritual nights ( " l�la "-s ), and in public during celebrations of national festivals ( the " moussem "-s, which are also pilgrimages ) as well as during folk performances or religious festivities, such as Ramadan, or mawlid, the " birth of the Prophet . " These are organized by the Moroccan and Algerian States.
