== United Arab Emirates a monarchy? == 

 Could someone please explain to me how the President of the United Arab Emirates could be a monarch? I know that the rulers of the individual emirates are monarchs, but the title of Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahyan related to the country as a whole is 'president' (while being Emir of Dubai). I  would think that if the founders of the UAE would have wanted to establish a federal monarchy (like the one in Malaysia) than they would have granted the federal head of state a monarchical title, which 'president' clearly isn't. The fact that Khalifa is the son of the previous president does not make it a monarchy, because this is also the case in Syria, Togo, Gabon, North Korea and the Democratic Republic of Congo and those and undoubtedly republics. And President François Hollande is not a relevant parallel either, because his title related to Andorra is Co-Prince. So any ideas why the President of the UAE would be a monarch?