Baking for the front lines: Yemeni women revive wartime support for fighters

Baking for the front lines: Yemeni women revive wartime support for fighters Submitted by MEE correspondent on Tue, 09/15/2026 - 13:00 As fighting escalates, women deliver baked goods to boost morale at the front 'I feel that baking these biscuits and preparing preserved food is the least I can do for fighters,' says Naseem al-Odaini (MEE) Off Early in the morning, with a large bowl at the ready and the oven heating up, Naseem al-Odaini and her friends begin kneading dough to bake date-filled pastries and biscuits.