Sade Character Analysis

A 24-year-old Palestinian-American who appears briefly in the book’s introduction and penultimate chapter. He used to have a comfortable job working for commodities traders in New York and even managed to get his brother hired at the same company, but his colleagues constantly berated him with Islamophobic and anti-Arab slurs, and his boss fired both him and his brother after finding out that his brother was born in Jerusalem. Sade was anxious and depressed for a whole year, barely able to sleep. Later, however, he found work at a technology company whose other employees were also mostly immigrants; he is now delighted to be surrounded by people who better understand his experience, but at the beginning of Bayoumi’s preface he is also upset to have learned that one of his friends was actually an undercover spy investigating terrorism. He tells Bayoumi that Arabs are “the new blacks” in the United States.