Emily Jacir’s Lydda Airport derives its title from an airport built by the British in 1930, in what was then known as the British Mandate of Palestine. Until 1939, it was the world’s largest aerodrome and an important stop along the ‘Empire route’ for the British airline Imperial Airways. The installation, comprised of a scale model of an airport cast in white urethane and epoxy, as well as a short film with custom-built scenography, is inspired by two stories of disappearance. The first story is told by Palestinian sociologist Salim Tamari, whose father Edmond, an airport employee in Jaffa, was sent to welcome the famous US aviator Amelia Earhart to Palestine. Earhart never arrived. The second story concerns the disappearance of Hannibal, one of the eight planes that made up the Handley Page fleet, the largest passenger planes at that time. In 1940, Hannibal mysteriously disappeared somewhere over the Gulf of Oman, en route to Sharjah. Centring the Palestinian experience of exile and loss, Jacir highlights the memories associated with the airport to explore the impact of conflict on personal and collective identities.