Middle Eastern Festival

This labor day weekend I went back to Mclean on Saturday. The Middle Eastern Festival was going on at Holy Transfiguration Church Greek-Catholic Church. I'm blogging about this for anyone is thinking of attending next year , or has questions on festivals in the DMV area. When first walking into the church we entered upon priests screaming preaches. We also saw a priest speaking to someone about the Catholic religion. It was distasteful for all of us to walk into a Middle Eastern festival and feel like we were actually going to church. Once we got past the priests we came to a large room, that was full of people given little place to walk. The people were majority white Americans, they Arabs that were there were volunteers. There was halwah-te-jiban,baklava,among other middle eastern sweets lined up against the wall, with people selling them. Once you buy your ticket you can get the food you want. I had falafel and Andrey got the beef shawarama. I've had much better falafel even in Adams Morgan at a place called Falafel and fries. I know the name sound weird but they have the best falafel! The girl who took Andreys order actually handed him back his ticket! So Kristen was able to also get a Beef shawarama! Which she got sick off of! The only thing that was good was the Almaza (lebanese beer). So all in all it was not a very good festival we left immediately. Kristen felt like it made the arabic culture look shallow and not very rich, the Middle Easter Festival was not a good representation, with 15 year old belly dancers, and moon bounces. The Middle Eastern festival should be held not a mosque nor a church. It will attract a better crowd if it were to be at a non religious location. To visit the website go here http://holytransfiguration.org/middle-eastern-food-festival.html