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You are mixing a few things here, flat roofs have nothing to do with brutalism in particular or Le Corbusier - they existed long before both. Maybe you meant modernism in general?

Anyway, for anyone wondering about all these flat roofs in modern architecture I recommend watching this video:

Why Do Architects Insist on Using Flat Roofs? - Stewart Hicks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW0ydAMVQ2w

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I do also wonder what people consider modern. As I sit in my flat-roofed 1880’s Chicago home. Surrounding block after block of flat-roofed residential buildings housing millions of people, largely constructed between 1872 and 1930.

I find it hard to take seriously someone who is "suprised" by the existence of flat roofs in traditional North African/Mediterranean/Middle Eastern architecture.

Why? Do you feel humans should be born with a natural instinct for Mediterranean architecture, much as they are for the supremacy of iterative software development?

No, but if you criticize an architectural feature, maybe researching where it came from and what the reasoning behind it is can be expected.

I would expect a person who runs an architecture YouTube channel to be vaguely familiar with major styles of architecture, yes.

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