[2][3] Al Yamamah provides information about the Arab nation's issues and contemporary concerns.

[4] It is one of the earliest magazines published in Saudi Arabia which was first published by a prominent Saudi Arabian journalist and historian Sheikh Hamad Al Jassir in Riyadh in 1953.

[6] In the mid-1950s Abdul Rahman Al Shamrani, a former military officer in the National Guard, anonymously published articles criticizing the Saudi royals due to corruption.

[7] In 1963, Al Yamamah Press Establishment began to publish the magazine on a weekly basis.

[11] Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Al Uqaili who was the deputy chief of Royal Protocol formerly served at the magazine's political desk.