The projection of credibility as a rhetorical strategy in Anwar el‐Sadat's address to the Israeli parliament

This article presents an analysis of the rhetorical strategies utilized by Anwar el‐Sadat, President of Egypt, in a speech delivered to the Israeli Parliament in November of 1977. Given political exigencies which dictated Sadat's rhetorical strategies, the projection of credibility — similarity, attractiveness, and trustworthiness — was Sadat's primary rhetorical goal.