One of my best friends is Emirati born and bred cabin crew for EK. One of the craziest guys I know too... if there is a party, and he is there, he'll be the life it.
I worked as c/crew for EK for 5 yrs, lots of Koreans, and Asians in general, Aussies, South Africans, Europeans, worked with a couple of Americans, more Canadians though. Oh yeh, lots of Lebanese. Definately not so many pure Emirati crew. Although they do get a monetary bonus on top of basic pay for being local as an incentive.
Heard today though they are offering 6months unpaid leave for cabin crew at EK. Things not as rosy as are being made out over in the sand pit it seems.