Career
Sherine writes regularly for The Guardian"s Comment & Debate section, and has also written for The Sunday Times and The Independent. She started in journalism aged 21, reviewing albums for NME, before coming runner-up in the British Broadcasting Corporation Talent New Sitcom Writers" Award 2002. She then wrote comedy for British television shows including the British Broadcasting Corporation sitcoms My Family and Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, and links for the Channel 4 quiz show Countdown after appearing on the show in 2003.
In addition, Sherine wrote episodes of several CBBC and CITV shows, including The Story of Tracy Beaker, The New Worst Witch and Space Pirates, before returning to journalism in early 2008.
In 2009, Sherine was nominated for Secularist of the Year 2009 (The Irwin Prize), a title awarded by the National Secular Society. In January 2009, Sherine gave a non-religious equivalent of Thought for the Day on Radio 4"s iPM programme.
She spoke about accepting the beliefs of others as long as they are expressed peacefully, and how the freedom to hold them is more important than the beliefs themselves. Sherine"s broadcast follows a similar one made by Richard Dawkins in 2002.
Thought for the Day continues to be reserved for religious speakers in its usual slot on Radio 4"s Today Programme, on weekday mornings.
The full advance and royalties from the book were donated to the United Kingdom Human Immunodeficiency Virus charity, Terrence Higgins Trust. She remains a distinguished supporter of the British Humanist Association. In December 2013, Sherine launched a new campaign in The Guardian called Give Just One Thing, linked to a free e-book she had written called Give: How to Be Happy, available from the website givebook.co.uk.
The campaign encouraged people to do just one of ten practical actions to improve the world, from signing the Organ Donor register to organising a charity initiative.
As part of the campaign, Sherine sold 50% of her possessions in aid of the humanitarian charity Medecins Sans Frontieres.