In migration from Egypt to the United States, sectarian memory of intercommunal violence has shaped Coptic translations of identity and possibilities of solidarity. Since the end of the Cold War and most especially following 9/11, Copts and other Middle Eastern Christians have been interpellated into U.S. imperial itineraries of religious difference and civilizational battle between Islam and Christianity. The racial infrastructures of the War on Terror have impacted upon U.S. Muslims and other Middle Eastern minorities alike—targeting Muslim-looking bodies for securitization. Such diasporic contexts have remapped minority migrations onto new imperial terrain with various ordinary affects. This paper will reconsider the idea of “diasporas of empire” (Naber 2014) through the case of the Copts, by attending to the intersection of sectarian memory from Egypt with the religio-racial itineraries of U.S. empire. Specifically, the paper will attend to these intersections through the 2005 brutal murder of the Armanious family in Jersey City, New Jersey, unpacking how violence and conspiracy translates transnationally and reopens wounds that prevent possibilities of intercommunal migrant solidarity. Ultimately, this paper will think about the (im)possibilities of Arab American Studies to include transnational minority difference—and particularly Christian difference—as more than a space for solidarity between racialized communities. Rather, this paper seeks to open a space to consider the challenges of repair and possibilities of mobilization in diasporic contexts.