When one door closes, another door opens. While President Trump signed an executive order of banning citizens of six Muslim-majority countries from entering US and Europe’s rise of far-right against “refugees” as potential wave of terrorism, growing sentiment of Islamophobia in the West further drives Arabs looking to the East. Away from the dominant outlook of Arabs living in religious radicalism and sectarian conflicts within the Arabian Peninsula, this case-study of Yemeni migrants in China provides an alternative angle of understanding how other Arabs travel and survive in this divided world.