Until recently, it was impossible to target organically regions or areas in Lebanon with Facebook ads. This feature is now available. In the screenshots below, I describe the new option and the one I was using and that I still use for political marketing (voters and users can use the Internet from work or home, and vote or live in a different area).
The new method
In the location are of your ad creator, you are now able to select cities or regions with a radius (how many miles around the city in all direction). In the example below, I chose “no radius” to limit the targeting to Achrafieh only without its surrounding areas:
My own method
This is the method I was using before this option has been made available. It is very similar to a previous post about targeting the competition. The Idea is to find very specific pages about a region and target the fans of these pages using the “interests” option in the ad creator page. In the example below, I targeted the fans of “Achrafieh 2020” and “Achrafieh”:
This article was mentioned by Catherine Stevens in http://paper.li/cas314159?edition_id=c2714300-ff1b-11e4-871e-0cc47a0d15fd