MIDEAST SYRIA RAMADAN

Hatem al-Jamal, front right, 39, Hesham al-Khateeb, centre, 31, and Ahmad al-Khateeb, 20 perform an Islamic folklore dance, al-Mawlaweyah in Damascus, Tuesday Dec. 11, 2001, at Laylatul Qadder, or the Night of Power, the night when Muslims believe God descended the Koran down to Muhammad, the prophet of Islam . Al-Mawlaweyah, emerging about 200 years ago in Syria, is a religious Islamic school which believes that music and dance can express love to the Almighty God. Its followers are asked to deal equally with all people, "and not to differentiate anyone from the other," Hesham said. The school is one of several schools of Mysticism in Islam. (AP Photo/ Bassem Tellawi).